I launched in 1730 AD.
With the insane amount of food in the capital, I decided it had to be my GP farm. After one settler, I built the Pyramids and Great Wall.
That first settler grabbed the grassland/gold spot from Ramses, which eventually became my Oxford/Wall Street location.
I beelined to Construction for catapults, which I used to capture Wang Kon's 4 cities and eliminate him.
Then I went for Bureaucracy, which didn't help much since I wasn't cottaging my capital. But I was only in it for a few centuries until I switched to Free Speech/Emancipation in 1030 AD.
I stayed in Pacifism from the time I lightbulbed Philosophy until I met the other continent and had to adopt Free Religion for diplomatic purposes.
I coverted Roosevelt to Taoism, and got him up to Friendly. He sold me some nice techs, including Plastics.
Moscow produced 17 great people. I also got 3 from techs.
GPs Used
Great Library (Engineer)
Philosophy (Scientist)
The Dai Miao (Prophet)
Printing Press (Scientist)
Education (Scientist)
Taj Mahal (Engineer)
Golden Age (Scientist, Prophet)
Golden Age (Scientist, Engineer, Artist)
Golden Age (Scientist, Prophet, Engineer, Merchant)
Golden Age (Scientist, Prophet, Engineer, Merchant, Artist)
That last golden age was probably a waste (it was still going when the game ended), but this was my first chance to get five GA's in one game.
I expect a pre-1700 spaceship launch is possible with minor optimizations to my strategy.