A Market is a building that provides economic improvements in Age of Empires, and in Age II and Age III also exchange one resource for another.
Age of Empires
First available: Tool Age
Cost:175 Wood
The Market unlocks tributes, and develops many technologies. These include ones that make gold, stone and wood collecting faster, ones that improve the food quantities of Farms and the Wheel, which turns villagers faster and makes chariots available.
- Upgrades
Age of Empires II
First available: Feudal Age
Cost: 175 Wood
Hitpoints: 2000
The Market allows for selling and buying resources, building Trade Carts which get gold in other Markets and bring it back to yours, and developing Cartography (your allies see what you see) and Tribute fee reducing technologies.
Age of Empires III
First available: Discovery Age
Cost: 100 Wood
Hitpoints: 2000
A market is a store where you can buy food and wood in exchange for coins or you can sell one of the resources and earn coins. having this way of trading gives you more options in managing your colony's economy. You can also buy some upgrades in the market also.