Granary

The granary of the Bronze Age is architectural proof that civilization had learned to think in seasons rather than days. Where a Stone Age hut stored whatever was gathered last week, the granary is engineered for bulk: thick mudbrick walls regulate humidity, raised floors on stone footings deny rodents access, and sealed amphorae hold wheat, barley, and lentils through the long months between harvest and spring planting. Palace records from Mycenae and Mesopotamian clay tablets both testify to this function — the granary was the economic foundation of every Bronze Age state. In the game it dramatically expands your food storage ceiling, sustaining a growing worker and military population through lean turns between farm harvests. Pair it with a field farm and build it near your civic center — a granary at the edge of your territory is a granary a raid will reach before your garrison does.