Goal: just win. No unneccesary risks.
It turned out to be easier than I expected, and I could have been more ambitious.
At 500AD, I was making 130bpt, and my best units were catapults and experienced swordsmen, Music and CS were just around the corner.
I had captured London, and reduced England to just one city on a hill between me and Zara Yaqob, and had destroyed most of Hatty's units, razing a couple of cities.
I had two stacks, one in Egypt, which needed a little reinforcement, to capture cities, and one just east of London, waiting on the hills and hitting stacks out in the open (I was just starting to see some 6-8 unit stacks from Toku, and smaller ones from the others.)
The game continued like this for some time, until I finally defeated Hatty in 835AD, uniting my stack to capture the rest of the continent in a sweeping fashion, with Elizabeth eliminated in 920AD, followed by Zara Yaqob in 1265AD.
By this time, I was getting my first Knights, and so I had one stack of Cats and crack CR3-Cover Maces to take out the tough cities with walls on hills, and used the knights to mop up the smaller cities with outdated defenders.
I worked my way up through Japan, sending Tokugawa to his grave in 1445AD, and then Pacal folded easily, unable to match my overwhelming numbers, biting the dust in 1520AD.
At this stage, I applied a small amount of low-calcium milk and MMed my cities for maximum growth while the Mayan cities came out of revolt. The end of these regolts didn't quite push me over the domination limit; I was a few tiles short, so I pushed the culture slider, and backfilled techs like Monotheism and Archery.
I won a domination victory in 1555AD with a score of 144k
Apart from my lack of ultra-early aggression, I made two really big errors.
1) I let Tokugawa build the Statue of Zeus. Fairly self-explanatory.
2) I didn't relocate my capital. This cost me hundreds of gpt, but as I didn't have a huge economic crash, I didn't think of it long before the end.