Till 70 AD I found some opportunities for trade and got Aesthetics and Philo. 25AD Alexander made peace with Wang, but Zara still wanted his blood (Wang bribed him into this war).
70 AD I DoWed Wang and razed his city next to my border (and Bronze he wanted so much).
85 AD Zara asked me to join war with Alexander. He was backward, with wrong religion and Zara was my neighbour so I agreed.
War with Wang went good and fast as my wars are concerned. It took me just 3 centuries to capture 4 his cities and raze 3 of them. Elputs against Archers is a working solution
My army was really small I lost 3 Cats and one Elephant and I had 12 Elputs at the end of war. I used first GG to create Medic3 Elephant with 2 moves. It allowed me to build HE. 5 turn to finish it at the end of war.
130 AD I got GS and used him to built Academy in my flood plains city.
At 145 AD Lincoln built GLib, it was the only wonder in this game I wanted and didn't get it. The same year Vicki declared on Alex. He made peace with Zara at 200 AD. 295AD I built Parthenon, just because I could.
Just 2 or 3 turns before I killed Wang he made a nasty trick by vassalizing to Zara. Now I was involved in unexpected war on my eastern flank. Fortunately Zara was very slow with his SoD. I was able to gather 5 HAs, 2 cats, 1 Ax and bring up my Balista GG. It was enough to annihilate Zara's 6-units stack and later 2 Chariots.
445 AD I discovered CS as first from all civs. 475 AD Zara made peace giving me few coins.
610 AD I bribed Peter to attack Zara.
655 AD I built MoM and few turns later used GA to fuel my first GA.
745 AD I built Shwedagon Paya in my 4th city, mainly for culture boost against Sal there.
850 AD Nationalism. Started Taj Mahal in capitol.
Vicky was at war with Alex all the time. 890 AD she asked me to join her and I did.
The same year I built Sankore and Chapel. Few turns earlier Lincoln built Buddism AP, so I spread it aggressively, each Monastery was a great boost.
One turn later someone (I suspect Zara) bribed Peter to DoW me.
970 AD Engineering. I also captured poor greek city next to ma western city with big Vicky's help. She suicided her stack and I finished the job and turn later destroyed Alex's counterattack.
990 AD I finished Taj Mahal and started another 15th turn long GA. I also discovered Education.
So at 1000 AD I was the biggest civ, first in scores, third in power. My enemies - Alex and Peter - were waek and backward, the rest of AI's were my buddist buddies. I was researching Lib. The only concern for me was Zara, but fortunately Sal was nice enough to settle cities between me and him.
To be continued...