Picks up from the early game described above.
850 – Oracle, the free social policy will nearly complete the patronage path. Next social policy will be tradition to add to wonder production.
Monte payed 300 gold for pearls and we used the cash to ally with Almaty receiving a dose of dyes that pushed happiness to +7
Monte and Napoleon appear ready to duke it out. Couldn’t happen to a nicer pair of guys. The big risk to a peaceful strat is that Monte will take out Gandhi and proceed south 
Gandhi bought the second pearls for 12 gpt less 78 which totals 282
Almaty’s first gift is a needed spearman.
An earlier research agreement with Monte yields civil service. I think early agreements work well once you get the GL and jump into the middle ages. If I understand it right, you are betting a chance to get a tech like civil service against the likelihood that they will get something like iron working.
When the lighthouse is finished, Thebes goes on a gold focus to buy alliances. We will likely change some farms to trading posts once Thebes grows beyond 12 or so.
Gandhi is at the bottom of the pointy sticks list. We are just above him, although I’m pleased to see that Monte is also relatively low. He’s probably killing his units off.
For the third pearl sale, Napoleon was relatively broke but gave his all, 6gpt and 80 up front. Liz tried to screw us. I don’t think she likes me.
Liz the warmonger has just moved above us on score. Breaking things is always easier than building. Monte attacked Vienna and we gifted a couple of warriors to them to make it a little harder.
0 AD -- Researching steel hoping to get a few high quality unit gifts. The gifted warriors finally arrived in Vienna and killed a couple of archers.
Liz called my offer of pearls unacceptable but then paid nearly 300 for it on a gpt basis.
I’ve also sold the other two pearls and the marble. Question – after you sell the marble, does it still help your wonder builds?
Anyway, running an acceptable +66 gpt before markets and with mostly farms.
150AD – Vienna gifted a great engineer. A great scientist born in Thebes. Vienna held out and still exists to ally with.
350 AD – Angor Wat
400 AD – engineered Chichen Itza and researched steel. Thebes is running +3 great engineer points and +2 science points. Wish we had fresh water. Growth is a bit on the slow side. Third settler is going in north at the river’s mouth. But Liz has taken a city from Gandhi there and she may attack.
900 AD – gifted Duke Ellington, lol
1070 – Engineered Himeji Castle, Duke Ellington set off a culture bomb on the northern river, but was careful not to disturb Liz. All kinds of diplo is occurring and we have to pay attention each turn. Allied with all the CS now and in the Renaissance Era.
However, Monte just disappeared. Liz is winning the ground war and it looks bad for the long run unless we get a clear tech lead and crank out some superior units soon. Almaty finally gave us a decent unit – the longswordsman
1250 AD – Darius showed up and bought pearls. I’m finishing Astronomy as we speak. We’ve had a couple of more longswordsmen gifted and are building one. Miles Davis was just gifted. We must be big jazz fans.
Got navigation, found the arabs, sold some pearls. Allied with the Irish. I’m the world’s most wonderful person, but the English are eliminating the French.
Enough for Thursday morning.
Elizabeth killed Napoleon, waited a few turns, and then attacked us. This caused every CS I was allied with, including a few on the other continent at that point, to declare on Liz. However, she has muskets, which means she has a tech lead at least on the military side. IMO, that is enough to declare a loss for Egypt. I don't think I executed the strategy as well as it can be done. I should have interfered in the wars earlier and did a better job of maximizing gold and production, as well as trade. So, enough for this game. Enjoy, all you warmongers. I'm still better at killing than I am at building