So I settled on the hill right next to the start location, only to wander north with the warrior and see the salt area. I instantly restarted and moved my settler there.
I am usually no fan of moving around with my settler, but this location was just insane.
I settled my second city on that said hill at the starting location, my third next to Mt Kili, build NC and bought a fourth settler and moved it south next to Greece to have a coastal city and get those furs. The furs were stolen by Greece around t229, and I probably should have bought more land towards Greece as he got a lot even before the GG and without a close city (Pharsalos was only build after he used the GG).
I got my workers from China, who would not stop sending her workers to those salt field. I only stopped once I got a caravan and no other city was in reach yet.
I sent Shoshone to DOW China instead, was quite cheap, he took all but Bejing, which pretty much annihilated China as a thread. And in late game he took that as well. Alexander did not need any bribes, he was already on a war path. Basically everyone except Portugal was at constant war all game long. At one point everyone (except me) was at war with Greece, but he was 10+ techs advanced and wasn't even struggling.
Greece of course had the most culture as well, along with Austria. But Austria lost all but one city to the Shoshone near the end. Sadly he did not wipe her out completely and Alexander, even though at war, did not really attempt as well. otherwise I probably would have ended the game earlier. With Austria still around I had to use one musician on her, and wait a few turns to get enough tourism.
Greece was Science runaway all game long, he also had most of the City states, only missing like 3 votes for World Leader, so I kept some money on the side to intervene if necessary, which never was as even though he could, he apparently never researched Globalization and never used his spies as diplomats either. Most of the game he was at 5-10 techs advanced from me, even though at some point I had RA with everyone still alive (except Greece [no DOF for U!] and China [no funds]). Only in the last 20 turns or so I caught up with him, with him only 1 tech more.
Everyone loved me, except Greece of course. I guess my coastal city did not sit too well with him. But, since he was at war all game long anyway, he was too busy to DOW me.
In the end I DOWed him to pop my musicians and I ended up with this:
Of course my tourism was falling afterwards and I had to reload and wait another turn. I popped again, but for some reason, even though I had him influential now, I did not get the win, so another reload and waited another turn, and this time it worked.