(predator)
This is a tough map! It feels like a deity game, and not an easy one.
I'm going for a conquest victory and hoping that's what Kuningas has chosen for this game
Opening Moves
My settler moved north. He didn't see any reason to move farther and settled there on the dyes.
My worker chopped the forest at the start position which resulted in an early Enkidu. After that I built a second Enkidu and then my first settler, completing that build in 3200BC.
Expansion
With no food bonuses in sight, and with low production (few shield bonus tiles) I decided not to build a granary. My capital produced settlers for a long time, producing enkidus between while waiting to grow large enough for a settler.
My second city went beside the floodplain wheat and my third went northeast of that to take advantage of the plains wheat. Both of these cities also had low production and again I decided to just pump out workers and settlers without building a granary.
My next four cities went on river locations. When I founded the last of those in 1550BC my world looked like this:
After that I continued expanding as quickly as I could to fill the start region and the land to the east. Food remained more plentiful than shields so I still didn't build any granaries. In the floodplain region I had so much more food than shields that my two towns which shared the floodplain wheat each ended up pop rushing a settler once.
In 630BC I finished claiming what I could of the start region with a town on the eastern coast. I hadn't managed to claim it all - Babylon settled one town on my south coast and Civ X settled one in my northeastern region. I'd started putting a culture squeeze on both of these invaders as well as adding a town to push against Babylon in the west.
QSC Status
At 1000BC I had:
13 towns, population 22
1 settler, 11 native workers, 1 foreign worker
11 enkidu, 1 galley
1 barracks, 1 temple
Research
I researched at the maximum rate I could afford. I learned Alphabet in 2630BC, Writing in 1750, and Philosophy in 1475. I was first to Philosophy and took Code Of Laws as my free tech.
I learned Republic in 750BC and got a five turn revolution.
After that I began researching Literature. I wanted to take advantage of Sumeria's ability to build libraries cheaply ASAP, both to boost my research speed and to start putting greater cultural pressure on the other Civs in my area. I started prebuilds for libraries in most of my cities.
Along the way I'd been trading for other techs of course. In 610BC the last techs I needed to finish Ancient Times were all available from one rival or another. I traded for them and entered the Middle Ages at this date.
Conflict
I encountered a lot of barbarians. They didn't cause much trouble because I generally didn't attack them - my Enkidus followed defensive terrain and waited for barbarians to attack them. I lost just three Enkidus and one Curragh to barbarians. Many barbarians died attacking my units.
Before I had it all patrolled a few barbarian camps did pop up in the eastern region. I attacked only one. The others were on good defensive terrain so I left them alone rather than attack with Enkidus. Eventually Babylon destroyed them for me.
Babylon and Byzantines each extorted gold from me once. I had no interest in war and cheerfully paid them. They also remained at peace with each other, it was a quiet time for all of us.
About recources: It will be difficult but possible to secure horse or trade with Navigation (may be Astronomy) but I know nothing about saltpeter place. 
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