Here comes the rest of my turnset. Lots of interesting events. I told Attila to give us 10 turns to prepare for a war against Suleiman. If we later don't live up to our promise to declare war it doesn't really matter if he hates us anyway, since we will be attacking him.
T175: Gades shifts production from a Longswordsman to a Galleass. Hippo Regius finishes the Forest Elephant and start another Galleass.
Attila comes to us again, this time asking if we want to sign a Declaration of Friendship. I tell him "Sorry, we prefer to go it alone" so we won't have to backstab him later.
T176: Nothing much happened.
Attila is a frequent visitor these days. He comes to us asking for a deal, offering 5GPT and Open Borders in exchange for Wine. I accept since we could use access to his terrain in our possible war against Suleiman.
T177: Sweden has met all civs and researched Printing Press which means the World Congress is founded with them as host. We get to propose a resolution and since I don't see anything very interesting I go with Natural Heritage Sites (+5 culture/natural wonder) to boost Mt Kilimanjaro a little. Also Suleiman has Uluru so if we can snatch the city that has it later on we would get two natural wonders with possible culture bonus.
T178: Our agent reports that Attila is plotting against Ottomans and Ethiopia. I inform Ethiopia about this (we don't have to attack them for a Dom win anyway) but not the Ottomans since we might be joining in on that plot. The Great Wall is
not built in Attila's Court. The two possible suspects would be Addis Ababa or Caesarea Maritima - the only other big cities Attila has got. I sent the spy to Addis Ababa to check it out because it would take 27 turns to steal a tech anyway.
Carthage finishes construction on an Observatory and starts building the Circus Maximus for a Happiness boost. Now - next player, remember: Persepolis does
not have a Colosseum. Do not annex the city before Circus Maximus is done.
T179: One of our Scouts meet Antananarivo on the coast just outside of Constantinople. Utique and Hippo Regius finishes an Observatory and a Galleass respectively, and are both set to build one more Galleass each. We're almost out of influence with Cape Town so I send some money their way because we're already at -8 happiness without losing their spice.
Attila declares war on Suleiman already! He wasn't patient enough to wait until we had had our 10 turns. That rarely happens in my games, they most often wait 10 turns themselves too. Ethiopia denounces the Huns.
And now we're in 1200 AD with some things to discuss. A new social policy is coming up this turn to be chosen by next player. I suggest we go for Naval Tradition (+1 happiness for each Harbor, Seaport and Lighthouse), it's either that or open a new tree.
Then we have the question of the upcoming war with Suleiman. How soon should we join? Do we even want to join? Attila surprised me by attacking so soon because as I said, in my games they often wait the 10 turns with me. Maybe we have to be ready to declare as soon as possible to be able to grab something from the Ottomans? Or we sit back and take the Ottoman lands from Attila's hands later.
Here's our lands and the situation right now:
Demographics:
If we did I agree to grab some Happiness instead of science
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on Darius and was diplomat extraordinaire. 
