SiP. I did not consider 1W at any point, as for marble, i think fish and 4 lakes clearly outweigh 3 hammers at an average and longer distance. built a WB raised up to 4 pop and slaved worker. Then WB, warriors, granary and settlers. tech BW-wheel-agry-pot-sail-myst-mas.
The main goal in the beginning was exploration and settlement. 2nd WB sailed to the west, and warriors studied island. I didn't expect Barbs before turn 50 and it turned out to be a mistake. I was clearing the fog all over the island, except for the northeast before 30 turn. But when my warrior on the 31 turn went there to "close" the island from the barbarians, he met archer. Oddly enough, the archer did not pursue him and eventually did not enter my territory. But he didn't let me settle there for a very long time. Only much later, under the cover of 3 warriors, I put 8th (rice-fish) city, after which archer attacked it and died.
At some point I realized that I was too carried away by the settlement and could be left without a Great Lighthouse. I was lucky and in 950 bc I built it. In the same year I founded Confucianism. (poly-pri-writing-CoL). By this point I had 5 cities. 2nd - SSE from stone, 3d - 2W from gold, 4th - fish-crab-copper, 5th - NW crab. I planned next city on west 3-tile island. but suddenly a barbarian galley appeared, killed my galley and destroyed 2 crabs. Therefore, the 6th city I founded on my island to south from capital, 7th city about silver (and nothing more) and only the 9th on 3-tile. 10th city near clam. Initially, I planned a city on an island between me and the Aztecs, but at some point I decided not to build it, probably it was a mistake.
In 300 bc, I learned СS (after mono-mon), I had 10 cities and 46 pop. I planned raice up pop for use fin trait but...At that moment, the Aztec declared war on me. I had a hunch, but I didn't believe him, and instead of keeping the galley between me and Monty, I sent her to the Incas. Monty attacked me with only 1 galley, but I had no one to protect the rice-fish city. I slaved 4 galleys, blocked the passage between Monty and me and started preparing for war. in 400 bc Inka learned the alphabet, but only in 350 bc he agreed to change. I got the alphabet, hunting, animals, archery, IW. After the Aztec attack, I took over the bureau, learned the currency, exchanged Metal Casting for currency and CoL, and learned the machinery in 25 bc.
In 1 AD i have 9 city, 46 pop. 1 trireme, 5 galleys, 1 mace, 13 warriors+ and very soon take back city and begin revenge )
AI build Stonehenge, Great Wall, Oracle in 925 bc, Colossus in 350 bc and Pyramids. I take ToA in 150 bc
By the way i still not connect desert gold (for trade) and none of my cities can use it )
. I agree with @ariosto, settling on Montys island is like painting a big target on yourself, dancing around singing: "Attack me if you can" 
. Looking forward to hear how that panned out. Maybe it was a genius way to make Monty spend his army attacking a hilltop city with walls?
