Mesopotamian

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Part of the Mesopotamian group. Held in 11 of 594 regions · its people live in 11 · the state belief of 1 faction

Where it is on the map

11 of the 594 regions hold this belief, 1.9% of the map. In some it is the majority belief; in the rest it is a minority held alongside a larger one.

Strength	Regions	Share of its regions	Strength	Regions	Share of its regions
Majority	8	73%	Minority	3	27%

Majority: 8 regions

Ankobaritis · Apolloniatis · Babylonia · Elymais · Mesopotamia · Orchoe · Sittakene · Sousiane

Minority: 3 regions

Chaldaia · Charakene · Paraitakene

The people it belongs to

Mesopotamian people live in 11 regions, and are the majority in 7 of them. The share is of each region's population.

Region	Share	Region	Share	Region	Share	Region	Share
Orchoe	85%	Ankobaritis	80%	Sousiane	80%	Babylonia	75%
Mesopotamia	75%	Elymais	50%	Sittakene	50%	Apolloniatis	35%
Charakene	35%	Chaldaia	30%	Paraitakene	10%

Who follows it

1 of the 239 factions hold this as their state belief. Between them they hold 0 settlements at the campaign start.

Faction	Culture	Provinces
Characene	Iranian	—

What builds it

These buildings strengthen the belief where it is already held. How much they add depends on how strong it already is there: the columns run from a weak minority (1) to where it is the majority.

Where	1	2	3	majority	Where	1	2	3	majority	Where	1	2	3	majority	Where	1	2	3	majority
Dependency	+4	+8	+12	+16	Direct Rule	+2	+4	+6	+8	Indirect Rule	+3	+6	+9	+12	Large Colony	+10	+10	+10	+10
Region Information Scroll	+2	+4	+6	+8	Small Colony	+6	+6	+6	+6

These buildings add the belief only where it is not held yet; that is how it spreads to new regions:

Where	What	Where	What
Large Colony	Mesopotamian belief +16	Small Colony	Mesopotamian belief +8

Other buildings that spread it

These also add the belief, depending on who owns the settlement, what government it has, or whether the belief is already there.

Where	Amounts	Where	Amounts	Where	Amounts	Where	Amounts
Shrine, Temple, Large Temple, Awesome Temple, Pantheion	+1, +2, +4, +6, +8, +10	Small Colony, Large Colony	+2, +6, +8, +10, +16	Racing Course (Leisure), Stadion (Leisure), Hippodrome (Leisure), Huge Hippodrome (Leisure)	+1, +2, +3	Town Theatre (Leisure), Odeon (Leisure), Theatre (Leisure), Great Theatre (Leisure)	+2, +5, +7
Small School (Civic), Academy (Civic), Great Academy (Civic)	+1, +2, +3	Court of Law (Civic), Magnificent Court of Law (Civic)	+1, +2	Homeland	+16	Region Information Scroll	+16

What it unlocks

Nothing. No building and no unit depends on a belief. Nor does any belief cause unrest against another in RIS, whether they share a group or not.

Its group

The Mesopotamian group holds this belief alone.