Some neat features of this particular scenario:
* Emphasis on having a lot of barbarian cities in place of the numerous independent minor countries and city-states
* There's two team civs: Roman Empire (east and west) and Gupta India (by this time the regent of the Vakataka kingdom answered to the Gupta emperor). Hopefully the Romans are big enough to fail with the Revolutions feature.
* Possible to start out numerous civs through conquest: Germanic kingdoms, Khmer, Rouran Khaganate, Gupta, Huari, Ghana, Wei dynasty, Arabia (a bit ahead of time, though)
* Was able to get the real historic names for all the rulers