The Cultural Heritage Module is integrated in both The Far East sets by default, but can optionally be added to The West and The East using this expansion.

When playing with 3 or 4 players, each player receives a Cultural Heritage card at the start of the game, instead of the starting credits and, during the Civilization Advances Acquisition Phase, they may use this card as a wildcard to substitute for one missing commodity in an incomplete set of trade cards; the card is then discarded.