iamnleth
Warlord
Update tonight. I absolutely 100% guarantee. Really.
Am I going to lose sleep tonight?

Update tonight. I absolutely 100% guarantee. Really.
Strangely, though Corporation added 1 trade route per city, but income dropped considerably on that turn. Strange...
I Also, is Izzy still Hannibal's vassal? Do colonial vassals have the ability to cancel?
You're in Emancipation now and you will be for most (if not all) of the entire rest of the game.
Why not nab the Kremlin to make all of your rush builds (theaters and military units especially) that much cheaper? I'd say take the Ottoman empire and build a shrine in whatever the biggest religion is without a shrine. I'm pretty sure you'll have the Buddhist, Confucian and the Islamic holy cities after Mehmed, right?
Mehmed will give you the Sistine Chapel in addition to the Kremlin and that will make border pops very much easier. If a city has too much population for that first ring, any Citizen or Marchant specialists that take up the overflow will give a couple of culture points each. That makes the cultural pressure and the wait for that first pop a lot easier to handle.
You certainly don't have to go after him immediately, but I'd say that he's worth considering for those two wonders alone even if he didn't have good cities and good land. He'll be a tough nut to crack since he's just a couple of turns away from Railroads, but a little bit of Artillery makes just about any city defense go *pop*.
sis has loads of specialists (strange idea for a financial leader by the way).
Strangely, though Corporation added 1 trade route per city, but income dropped considerably on that turn.
By the way, how do you get the "glance" screen in the diplomatic adviser?