Ouch! The vegetable man has left me so far back in his wake that the water isn't even stirring anymore.
Huts: spearman, 65 gold, 20 culture, archery (3 turns left on that...), 75 gold
Tech: pottery, archery (popped with 3 turns left), AH, Writing, mining (poor choice), calendar, sailing, masonry, wheel, BW, Optics (late!), Drama & poetry, trapping, philosophy.
Policy: LIBERTY, Citizenship, republic, coll rule (t49), representation, meritocracy, PATRONAGE (t104). The free leader was used for Gretat Scientist>academy
Build order: Scout, monument, Shrine (becasue we are obviously alone, or am I rationalizing?), granary, caravan (halfway, waiting for Writing tech), library, caravan finished, ToA=38 gold, archer, archer, cargo ship, quinquereme, mausoleum, ...
t8 - met Monaco (as first civ)
t9 - Lhasa, as first civ. 8 faith
t12 - Met Ur as first civ.
t16 - Protecting Lhasa
t19 - First pantheon founded, missed it by 1 turn.
t24 - Pantheon. God of the open sky or messenger of the gods? I find the second one to be the most mature choice. Tech growth will be slow due to no caravans coming our way. But with liberty culture equals growth, and the first pasture will be ready in 4 turns.
t26 - first barb camp discovered near Ur.
t28 - Captured worker from LHasa.
t34 - Befriended UR thanks to barb camp. Replayed three moves (not three turns) identically from autosave because my son turned off the game.
t38 - Allied Ur after barb kill.
t43 - Met Shaka. They have a lot of money but very few luxes.
t44 - Luckily, Ur desires cotton.
t57 - Zulu has a trade route with us. Next neighbour probably distant.
t62 - Morocco. I had to find them! Yerevan.
67 - befriended Lhasa in a desperate hope to get a religion eventually. Seing how Zulu, and later Assyria, have no pantheons, I decide to sacrifice some money to go for the LAST religion available!
t73 - Byzantium and Assyria.
t90 - Forced to delare war on Shaka becauser of a Zulu settler on our continent. Let's hope he doesn't kill us or our ally Monaco.
t91 - The timing was right for picking off another Zulu settler, on the longitudinal island south of our starting continent. But I have almost no military!
t100 - Founded Zoroasterism with Interfaith dialogue and Swords into plowshares. Even though there were 4 religions already - 3 of them enhanced - I got some excellent beliefs.
103 - Peace with Zulu.
Picture 1 shows why I had to declare on Zulu. Pic 2 is from t103.
I did adjust the build orders so that the libraries and the cargo ship are to be finished at the same time.