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Yes. When an effect or basic action lets you take a population pawn from a column, take the next pawn left-to-right even if that column hasn’t been accessed via your Food production track (page 6).

No. Scholars you assign to technology spaces remain on the main board for the entire game and are never returned to your player board (page 7).

No. Only settlers may move off the map edge to explore and reveal a new territory tile; soldiers cannot explore new tiles (page 8).

No. You must exhaust all settlers used to meet the strength requirement (return their pawns to your population columns and tokens to supply); you do not keep any leftover or reduced-strength settler (page 8).

You must claim a goal as soon as you satisfy its conditions, and you may claim only one goal card on your turn even if you meet more than one (page 11).

No. The second player who builds an existing construction pays the cost, gains the immediate bonus and places a cube on the right spot, but does not receive the left/right first‑builder VP; the first builder earns the left‑space VP (and only receives it if another player later builds the same construction) (page 10).