Ok, I'm pretty new to Civ (still at Chieftain diffuculty, but I'm planning to try moving up to warlord soon), but thanks to lurking around here for a while, I already have a vague impression of what's right and what's wrong, and also already read about economies. So I tried the scientist economy in my last game as Gandhi, and it worked pretty well for me, I was teching faster than ever (of course that doesn't mean much....)
Therefore, I of course decided to use it again, this time as Cyrus.
I think I got pretty lucky with my starting position, Persepolis has some pretty nice food production. I got the Pyramids by founding Pasargadae near Stone. Because I didn't want to wait for a culture building and a border pop, it probably isn't ideally placed, but at least settling it there got me the Pyramids and Representation.
Then, I built some more cities and an army consisting of mainly Catapults and Elephants. I declared on my neighboar Sitting Bull (probably not very clever, but Wang Kon is protective as well and somewhat farther away from Persepolis and Mansa Musa has to build 2 shrines for me before I attack him, he seemed like the best target). I took Cahokia and Chaco Canyon and razed Poverty Point (it overlapped too much with Cahokia, I'm planning to resettle it 1N) and Mound City (on the border of the Tundra). I would have let him capitulate when he only had Mound City left, but he didn't want to. I also got a Great General in the war which I'm going to use for my Medic Scout. I also had a Woodsman 3 Warrior, but he got killed by a Barb Axeman on the way home.
So, long story short: I did stuff, and now want some criticism on my city placement and some tips for where to settle my next cities and how to specialize my cities.
(In my Gandhi game I had like 4 scientist cities, a production city and 2 cottaged cities (not on rivers, but because I couldn't build any farms there and they had ressources like Dye, I just focussed them on money. All other cities were just there and I didn#t really know what to do with them.)
The only cities I already know what to do with are Persepolis (Science, I'll probably build Oxford university and National Epic here. Also, I'm trying to get the University of Sankore (as seen above) and the Great Library (which I should probably be building first instead) here) and Ecbatana (Production because of all the hills and a river for Watermills (which wonders here?)). And about the other cities, I don't know yet what to do with in the long run.
Pasargadae is there for its Stone which I needed for the Pyramids and the Elephants.
Susa is for the Copper and the Gold.
Tarsus is for the Horses. Could become a decent production site once the Moai are finished and with some Workshops or Lumbermills.
Gordium was going to prevent Bull from getting these strategic ressources.
Cahokia and Chaco Canyon seemed both pretty good to me, so I kept them.
So, I have all these cities, but to be honest no idea what to do with them any advice?
Also, there are my planned locations for my next few cities on the map.
The one in the west is going to isolate Mansa Musa (not visible on this map, but Timbuktu is only a few tiles away from the western end of it) on his peninsula if I also settle another city farther north. It also has these two food ressources.
So, would blocking Mansa be a good idea? And if so, where should I place the other blocking city?
The city north of Cahokia is where Poverty Point was, just one tile north of it. Looks like a good spot I think, with 2 food ressources and that river.
The tundra city would get me Silver, Deer and Whale, but would that be worth it since apart from that it would be junk (Expecially since it's not going to get Moai). Would that be worth it?
I also think I should place some more filler cities around Pasargadae. Particularly the Cow+Floodplains location looks good. But where exactly?
. Also it does not need a market when your running 100% 
and can sustain 80%, its not even a holy city. This is easily the worst managed city in your empire
