It turned out later that I still hadn't met Justinian, who was on the same continent as Ram. Justinian had a ridiculous score, he build the 5 or 6 wonders that I hadn't gotten, and he had almost 30 cities (although some of them were crappy icy wasteland cities). He had something like 1200 points when I met him, he was ahead of 3rd place by almost 500.
I think this game was really uniquely balanced. All the serious REXers were put on the same continent: Zara, Charlie, Toku, Mehmed, and Genghis. The whole continent had apparently been a warzone for the last 2000 years. Mansa and Saladin were both doing fine on the same continent, but the problem was that they were in the middle of a fairly barren jungle. Same goes for Napoleon and Monty. On my continent was Frederick, who never did get around to building a military and got vassalized by me quickly (in fairness, he had a crappy starting place... 1 gold and 1 food source, but a few floodplains. And it turned out later that he had 1 uranium, 1 coal, and 1 oil in his BFC.) Shaka would have done well if he hadn't been hemmed in from the start... I guess he didn't have too many settlers, and got limited by Wang Kon to the west (who, by the way, had a very good starting place and just terrible surroundings) and Pacal II to the east (who expanded really fast and had a pretty serious military.) I had a very decent starting place and good surroundings. The only problem was barbarians, who loved me for some reason. At one point, I actually lost 4 cities out of my 6. Then I took them back, of course. Elizabeth generally does fantastic in her games, but in this one, for some reason, she had only one city until about 1000 AD, and then she was at war with Ragnar, who for some reason also didn't expand at all. This was just luck. I just played through a Monarch game where I got axe-rushed by Charlie, Monty, and Sury all at the same time. Lose on turn 130.