Alexander proves that he is more than a nothing in this game. He takes a city! Congratulations, Alex! Is this your first time?
Wait, isn't Berlin in Paris' culture radius?
Hide the tanks!
Lots of fighting is going on, hence the two GG's. Freddie is losing, though. It also seems Cathy has Delhi. Perhaps she decided to chariot rush? (not that AI's have the brains to do so) More likely is that India got the barb event and their cap got taken.
Sallie and Qin have parts of India too.
A Great Merchant, Giovanni di Medici, with Roman roots (there was a mass-emigration of Romans to Spain and France when great Carthage invaded Italy), is born in Paris. He earned a lot of gold, didn't know what to do with it and finally made weapons of it. This way, golden weapons were invented. After the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age Mali entered the Golden Age. The Mausoleum of Mausollos was used as a huge furnace to melt the gold, and this way the Golden Age was prolonged.
The industrious inhabitants of London, despite still being in the Renaissance age, invented the first skyscraper.
Berliners decide Alexander stinks (probably because half of them were killed by his army) and join Mali! It's getting a lot of German pressure though. By the way, why didn't they just join Germany again?
We meet Inca. They are backwards and small like always (the RNG deity was right!). They are Confucianists, like Montehzumah and Roosey.
Paris completes the Notre Dame. Aside from the happiness, it gives another cultural boost to Paris
Alexander. Conquered. Persia!
He probably wants to contribute to the historical aspect of this thread.
It also explains how he managed to keep up in tech enough to take Berlin.
There are 13 civs I know now, and as 18 civs - France - India - Rome - Spain - Persia is 13, we've met everyone.
Greedy Aztecs took American city for resources. Not that they wouldn't have attacked anyway.
I'm settling S-America, as you can see.
I might kill HC to remove his pesky culture which comes from over the mountains.
The world at 1355 AD.
We have got 3 gems and the highest GNP, so so far for our historical conditions .
And we close off this round with a bang! The Taj Mahal, an enormous gold mine, is built in Paris. There is the second Golden age!
As things are getting a little bit boring, I call for a
CRUSADE!!!
We converted to Free Religion, so we are atheists.
As the rest of the world is still religious, it's an atheist-vs-believer crusade!!
You can vote who you want me to attack.
I'll get ten turns to prepare, then I declare war on that person.
Goals?
Lose no cities (if I lose them, I have to take them back)
Take two enemy cities and their cap.Make peace with everyone after goal 1 and 2.
Who saw that coming? I suppose my power from the Roman-Spanish-French war helped, but this is... game-winning 
I'm glad I'm not Freddie. He is the top leader in power atm, but that will change soon.
completes the AP. China will win the resolution.
