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Great Project Historical Anecdotes (Ironman Compatible)

Have you ever thought: 'man, I really wish that I could get a bit more historical information about the Notre Dame. I mean, I know it's in Paris, and it's probably a church, but it would be nice with more details...'

Well, have no fear, citizen, now there exists a mod for that!

(BTW, if you end up liking it, please do remember to give it a thumbs up.)

This mod adds a paragraph of historical* information to All 133** of the great projects, now including canals!

I have attempted to make sure time of construction, primary significance, and potentially destruction are included in all of them.

*The info/text is mostly taken from Wikipedia, so of course it could have been written by anyone. I also did not deeply study any page. Still, I think it's a helpful pointer! Some is also taken from UNESCO WHC, credit etc further down the description.

**Technically correct, but do note that four 'seperate' Great Projects share the same description, as they are in reality one project spread across four provinces. China builds big.

Keep in mind, the text has been somewhat reordered (etc) for relevance (such as removing mentions of location and redundancy (particularily of Great Project names), and choosing only the text the creator thought relevant at the time, for the purpose of being 'short and informative'). This is done in good faith, not to misinform.


As original site formatting and EU4 formatting do not always play nice, here is a list of the tools I had to employ, and their meanings.

• (individual letter inside): this is done for letters with certain peculiarities EU4 Does Not Like, such as the french e'. It merely means: 'special version of this letter'.
  
• (depicted: *insert item here*). This is for when the image of the great project does not capture the breadth of the project itself. For example; Petra displays an ancient temple, when in reality it was an entire ancient city.

This mod should be perfectly compatible with any mod that does not add 'desc' localization to the great projects!

• None! Maybe if new great projects are added.

It is very welcome! I do not consider myself particularily experienced with modding, so if you have a suggestion or something, do feel free to share.

Keep in mind that I make NO guarantees to actually do anything, though.


If anyone from Paradox dev team happens upon this, feel free to add something like it in the base game! I mean, obviously you could anyway, the terms grant you the right to yoink mods as you want if I read it correctly. This is just an extra 'go for it!' I'd love to be credited for the idea, but even if I'm not I'd still be pleased, because I think PDX has better fact checkers than one guy skimming wikipedia. Have a good one!

All the content (historical text) is drawn from either Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ) or UNESCO WHC ( https://whc.unesco.org/ ). By their respective copyright policies, I am obligated to declare that all content taken/remixed from their sites is available under the same terms it was on their sites, and to provide links to those policies:

• Wikipedia: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  
• UNESCO WHC: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en#
  
• Updated terms from Wikipedia, I am including both old and new as text was copied under both terms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License

I am also required to give credit to each individual article, and as such I have listed them below (NOTE: DUE TO TEXT CAPACITY, GREAT PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS 51-ONWARDS ARE CREDITED IN RESPECTIVE PATCH NOTES) grouped by subject, declared in () when not sourced from wikipedia (warning: long list ahead):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_of_Athens (excerpt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machu_Picchu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichen_Itza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeji_Castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Fuji

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altepetl (excerpt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwedagon_Pagoda - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpa_(time) (excerpt) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupa (excerpt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambras_Castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_Verde_National_Park

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%AFt_Benhaddou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarkand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Temple - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Granth_Sahib (excerpt) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurdwara (excerpt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokhang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupa (excerpt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Confucius,_Qufu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murud-Janjira - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patil_(title) (excerpt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besakih_Temple - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_temple (excerpt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanbawzathadi_Palace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/365/ (Unesco WHC, Khami) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khami

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prambanan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuksuk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuksuk_Point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateshgah_of_Baku

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Pechersk_Lavra - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cave_monasteries (excerpt) - https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/527/ (Unesco WHC, Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%A9m_Tower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankin-k%C5%8Dtai - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_period (excerpt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_at_Halicarnassus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heddal_Stave_Church

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Versailles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Escorial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Rico

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem

If I have somehow erred in following either organizations policies, please do inform me so it may be corrected.