Since this was a Xmas game, I tried to play it as peacefully as possible, to honor the season's spirit.

Instead of expanding towards Egypt, we took the northwestern route (no Astro needed, thanks Mr. Mapmaker

) to colonize America and planned to expand there and pursue our usual space victory goal.
It was 1040AD when we got involved in our 1st war. Crazy Ramesses declared on us, sending a galley and a trirreme. We immediately bribed the french against them, and then Ramesses, who was the AP owner and resident, on the next turn called a resolution to stop the war against him

(which duly passed).
While we were still expanding peacefully, Louis was emerging as the main AI power, vassaling Ramesses and Justinian. Since we were getting nice resource trades from him and had enough AP votes to block him from sneaking an AP victory, this did not bother us. Also helped the fact that he did not had a coastal city from which to launch an invasion on our Magische Koenigreich.
But at some point we simply ran out of space and decided to expand our domains to the African continent, since Roosevelt was a sitting duck stuck at 3 cities. We declared as late as 1555AD, and our army had infantry and cannons. It was a short war and in 1595AD Roose was no more.
Funny enough, on the following turn a fairly large (30+) Aztec stack (mainly medieval units, half of them trebs/cats) showed up next to New York, where my army was after capturing that last American city. I didn't wait to ask what were their intentions - but Monty's red fist was up, so...we decided to attack!

We killed half his stack, then the injured ones retreated to the nearest Aztec city. From then we proceeded to capture 6 Aztec cities and got another (good) one from his capitulation deal (1685AD).
The rest of the game was uneventful until our spaceship arrived on Alpha Centauri, but as a side quest to honor the Christmas themed game we timed to complete the Christ the Redeemer Statue Wonder on the final turn of the game.
Thanks for the game!