Played a longish and slightly interesting set.
So what was interesting about it you may wonder.
Well, the first item of interest was Cyrus had enough on his hands in 1080, had a stack 2 tiles from our borders and wasn't at war with anyone else. At this point our strongest unit were longbows (and not many of those either). To add to the piquancy Saladin capitulated to Cyrus in 1130, Cyrus demanded we cut our ties with Egypt which we of course refused (quite reasonably in my opinion). We had upset Saladin earlier by refusing to give him education for nothing.
The second item of interest is that we were still engaging in the liberalism race and instead of popping a GS in Korea we popped a GE who subsequently completed National Epic for us in the blink of an eye. To make the liberalism race more interesting and in the interest of world development we traded education quite freely:
Education to Mansa for gunpowder and 90g (1110).
Education to Frederick for compass, machinery and 230g (1110).
Education to Catwoman for engineering and optics (1120)
Gunpowder to Lizzy for guilds (1120).
We also sold some old techs to the also rans (Alex and Toku) for pocket change and renegotiated a couple of deals (including ivory+6gpt for iron with Hats).
While this made the lib race more interesting it also enabled us to chop/build/whip some less naff units in the western provinces.
We got beaten to economics and nationalism and astronomy but still won lib in 1190 and took nationalism.
Karakorum has completed HE and is now building units.
In terms of expansion Toku beat us to the phillipines, Qin has borneo, there's a settler in indonesia who can build a city next turn or board a galley towards Australia.