I moved to the hill and settled a decent spot for my cap. I went Tradition and planning usual 4 cities unless happiness could allow me to grab one or two more later.
I MoV'd Colombo when it had 7 pop and the units and worker were useful. Colombo also had a market and spec and it wasn't long before I could MoV Jerusalem. I didn't MoV Kiev yet since we were still quite friendly and I wanted the culture.
Once I had another MoV, then I took Kiev and sent food cargos back and forth. Food caravans were also going to Venice and to some other expos.
I built Colossus and Petra in Venice and then quickly a temple, but still missed out on a religion, soon this cost me my pantheon and 5 pp/t from my fishing.
Oxford radio and got my Ideology first on t203 (too slow) and took Freedom for specialist enhancement. I had many spec's but Jerusalem never seemed to want to make many if any science spec's.
I planted all GWAM hoping for some tourism so as not to suffer huge from other ideologies. I still had a tough time with
as time progressed more into the 200's. Egypt was a monster of culture with many wonders and a total nuisance.
Unlike others I left France alone, but had to pay many times to keep Nappy and the other two idiots to my west at war.
T242 and denouncements and DOW's from Shaka and Ramses. Shaka had other issues and couldn't get to me and the war meant that I could clean out a couple cites Ramses had built between me and Sweden.
I managed to time the policy to buy space ship parts nicely after finishing Rati for that free tech. My final space tech was done just several turns after so I had only to wait those turns to finish the space ship.
At the end, Venice was pop 52. It would've been bigger had I managed
a bit better (should've bought a zoo or two, but was afraid it might not help or I might need the cash for defense.) I didn't try to ally Belgrade for food cargos as even once I had finished Commerce and had no more
issues, I didn't think I could hold that spot from the 3 hostiles to my west.
