Ancient Era : 3 cities fast
From the starting point i saw a mountain so i moved the warrior towards it to check for a possible capital spot. I saw tiles near the mountain had freshwater so i moved there. Settled T2 next to the bananas and reluctantly accepted the poor production for a 5 turns pop2 growth. Warrior spotted mnt Kilimanjaro when moving away from capital and took a trip there to get the hills move then went north trying to move on hills. Made up for lack of early scout. Built 2 scouts and sent them to Kili before exploring as it was close. Early exploration revealed some nice salt north, close to China and some CS including a religious one (Jerusalem) and more jungle tiles all east and west. I built a shrine after meeting Jerusalem and actually got an early pantheon (at 15 or 20 faith) and took Jungle culture to speed up tradition and aesthetics (no need to hold on culture when 2nd tree is classical era). I didn't have a good faith pantheon to found a religion anyway.
Scouting also revealed Alex and Pocatello were in the game and probably not too far away
Warrior was able to steal 2 workers from China and those were sent to chop some forests to speed up settlers in the capital as i wanted to secure some lands before Pocatello grabs everything with his great expanse.
First settler went north for the salt and settled in a probably unusual position : on the hill by the lake. I saw several benefits to this position : still had 2 salts, the cotton and several pastures plus hills for great production, still had some ring3 jungles for Brazilwood camps later and i wasn't totally forward settling Wu Zetian. Past experience with her revealed that she can become a trusted friend if you can avoid angering her (much like some people reported for Shaka, but she's not as aggressive as Shaka early). I had to delay a Shoshone settler with a scout to be sure he wouldn't come for that location. He settled further north very close to China : good for me border tensions would be worse with him.
Second went east for a hill near Quebec City with access to more citrus, jungle and an easy to defend position against a supposedly southern Alex (there was marches in his way).
I stopped there and decided to go 3 cities NC and plant a 4th later. Time to enter classical with Philosophy.
Classical Era : Feels like dr Frankenstein
Research was pretty good considering i had built settlers fast on a production poor capital while delaying libraries. I made peace with Wu after stealing a 3rd worker (without peace i would have lost the scout that sole it but she couldn't capture the worker) decided to build a caravan to appease tensions and leach some science. I was 6 turns from a T61 Philosophy when Alex marched an army towards Salvador. There were swords and Hopplites but a worker-scout had spotted some companion Cavalries below and i still had only my scout-archer and warrior as an army so i made something i rarely do, i bribed him to go after Harun (he was closer than me). Alex asked for 1 lux and 2 GPT which was cheap. I Hoped it would keep him busy till i had some green diplo with him. About the same time Pocatello DoWed China.
It worked too well actually : Alex took Mecca and quickly went runaway, founding a religion with Harun's own wonders and holy city. I just had created a monster
On the bright side Alex now have founded a religion but his cities follow Harun's religion. He will first have to get rid of this one and won't spread very well. It's good for me cause i've been allied with Jerusalem for quite some time now (thanks to a barb camp holding one of their workers that i freed). With their help and 2 shrines i actually managed to turn my Sacred path pantheon into the 5th religion
. Took tithe and Religious community. Don't plan to spread as i have very low faith generation.
At Philosophy i started building Oracle at Sao Polo (salt expo) while Rio was finishing Library
for NC. Still managed to get NC around T80 and quickly built a settler after that. Settled Brasilia between Kili and mountain, west of Rio : a totally unproductive, jungle heavy, 3rd expo. Pocatello sent a settler down south through all CS territory while i was building mine. Land was dangerous so i decided to "escort" him to safety until he could settle ... right next to Alex. I had more troops at that time as Sao Polo had cranked archers for some time.
As soon as i had horses improved, i offered 1 to Wu, Alex and Pocatello. I also sold some Citrus to Wu for 4 GPT. I wanted her to be my friend.
Medieval Era : Me and my monster are growing
Rio have low production but good food. Sao Polo is my production city. Salvador is not bad, not great and Brasilia sucks but working Kilimanjaro gets me good culture and food for growing. Despite a suboptimal expo and a squarely bad one i have very good research. I'm on for a T100 education, very good for me (several TRs from China were helping). Then, on T95 i see this
My monster is really going out of control. I thought after taking Mecca he would anger other AIs. In fact he did, but nobody dared attack him. There were some denouncements but no DoW and now he's going runaway like Alex. Wait, he
is Alex
Obviously, not every AI has been as good as him at research
Never knew who stole this. I wasn't even angered. I pity him/her
I bought a missionary as soon as i had 200 faith to spread my religion, waiting to enhance as all AIs already had and they couldn't steal any more belief from me.
Renaissance Era : Let the 
flow in
After Education, research quickly went up as i bought a Uni in Rio. I also finally managed to sign a DoF with Wu Zetian and another one with Maria Teresa so i got 2 RAs. I researched some low techs to open higher ones for my spy to steal and then entered renaissance with Acoustics to get Sistine. It's not eh best wonder for a culture victory, but it's the worst wonder to allow the culture runaway (Alex) to grab. I built it at Rio with 2 production TRs! I took Machinery after Acoustics and started spamming Brazilwood camps with my 6 workers (built 2 in Sao Polo to help speed things up). Things really started to get better with all the culture and gold. I also entered a golden age (couldn't avoid it) so money was much better. At last i could buy stuff in Brasilia and all that jungle around it could be put to good use. With my religion, universities and camps a jungle tile was 2
2
2
3
I stopped aesthetics before the golden age policy and worked my way in rationalism for more science. I bought more than i built at that time and this was without a single commerce policy.
AIs were not passive in Renaissance. Wu Zetian who had gone Tradition/Liberty started settling more small cities all over the map, earning denouncements from several AIs. Pocatello kept spreading to unlikely places and both Marias went at war multiple times. Pachacuti finished off poor Harun. Wu-Zetian founded world congress a couple turns before i would get Printing Press myself. I proposed Worlds Fair first as i almost always do. It was my only proposition as an AI built Forbidden Palace soon after.
On the wonders front : Wu built LToP the turn after world congress (so 2 turns after tech), possibly with her Liberty GE. Alex got most of the culture wonders, Maria Theresa got one.
By the end of Renaissance i had great
,
and
but lost all important wonders.
Industrial Era : Wonders are lost, but not the game. I'm Brazil
I entered Industrial with a bulb of Scientific Theory, techs queued for Radio with Oxford pre-built to 1 turn. WF was enacted soon after and i started working hard on it but Maria Theresa won. This was the first time i saw AIs start working on it the same turn it gets voted. Most of the time you have 1-2 turns head start before AIs switch to it (probably they finish what they were building first) but not this time as it was 12% after 1 turn and only half was my own production. Free Policy went to rationalism as i still didn't have Ideology. Well, at least Alex didn't get it. He was probably too busy with war and allying CSs.
Modern Era : Preparing the Carnival
Radio was "oxforded" the turn after i stopped working on WF. I was already researching techs leading to Hotels. I went freedom of course for the golden ages. Got second Ideology (China went Order with factories) so took GP and half food from specialist tenets. With all my culture it wasn't long before i got the half
from specialists/longer golden ages tenet. I started working on hotels in my good cities while saving money to buy them in the "bad" ones. Queued techs for plastics. Wanted to rush Eifel in Salvador but population was too low so i kept GE for SoL (i could only afford to buy one with my pitiful faith, oh, Jerusalem was still my non-stop ally). This is the situation a few turns before the Carnival.
See my impressive 2
I actually used one Great Writer. But hotels are on the way and my second natural golden age will soon begin. It will be a 15 turns one, i have a great artist ready to add 12 turns and the aesthetics policy for another 15 turns so i'm about to enter a 42 turns at least carnival.
Carnival got delayed slightly because Ideological pressure (Alex, Pachacuti, and Maria Therease all went Ideologies, either Autocracy or order) cut some of my happiness.
went from 2 to 92 and i still have to buy the 4th hotel. Now Brazilia is finally useful with all it's Brazilwood Camps.
Atomic Era and later: Endless Carnival
After Plastics i went for Radar to get Airports, saving gold to buy as much of them as fast as possible. I had 2 ruins near Sao Polo so landmarks made it a better culture city then originally planned (it had few jungles). Only Salvador was left behind but became my best production city after i bought the water plant and built Cristo Redentor (i'm Brazil after all). Diplomats in every Capital, Trade Routes to as many civs as possible. Pocatello and Maria 1st went Freedom and Order civs fell into Disorder. I built planes to help on defense in case Alex decided to finally attack me (but he was at war with Pocatello thanks to the city he settled down there after i "escorted" one of his settlers). Sold a lux to Pocatello for 5 oil so i had one bomber and one fighter in every city.
Wu Zetian was really culture poor and first to fall to my culture. She never stopped smiling, i told you she was a nice friend. I've been friend with her despite ideologies since late medieval. She could have stolen my lands with numerous great generals as she had planted cities 1 tile from my borders but never did.
Finally teched to Internet after Radar. I had a GS and a GW ready to bulb, one policy left in Rationalism. I bulbed Ecology with GS and Telecommunications with GW and Rationalism finisher so that i would build National Visitors's center and Musician Guild while researching Internet. I had faith for a second purchase so 1 turn after internet i had 2 Great Musicians. Now, there was something flawed in my plan.
Never attacked him, never denounced him but he really didn't like me. 2 Great Musicians wouldn't be enough to finish him so i waited 8 turns for a 3rd one, ready to DoW him and invade him with my musicians. Then, the same turn i got my 3rd musician, Alex decided to switch to "traitor mode", showing up all smiling and polite. Decided to ask what he wanted for an open border
Expansive for a "friend", but much better.
Didn't fail! Well done Alex
That's when i realized 2 GM were enough 8 turns later and the last one should have been sent to Austria instead. As always i mess up finishing time by half a dozen turns thanks to not paying attention to everything.
Final Demographics. I wasn't even last on military after finally upgrading all my CBs, probably explain why Alex changed his approach
). After all, the Hermitage can be a substitute for Uffizi, but then your Golden Ages are a periodical substitute for Pisa. 
). I ended up going Order because Wu did and an AI going early Order tends to cause the other AIs to do so; indeed, Pocatello and iirc Portugal went Order as well. I felt very uncomfortable attempting to go Freedom when surrounded by two runaways with gigantic armies. Alex ended up going Autocracy but actually never attacked me, he spent the whole game slamming his giant army into Wu's. He did denounce me near the end but my ABombs made him too scared to attack.
