Here's my suggestion:
The Balanced Strategy
This strategy will balance between the military, religion and infrastructure. Since we don't have copper near by, were going to have to pray for horses or iron (preferably iron, but our UU makes horses more have a little more appeal.) Since we've researched ourselves onto Bronze Working and we won't be founding one of the three early religions, we should shoot for Confucianism. This will require us to build the oracle.
Using the Oracle to get CoL, it gives us Confucianism (potentially 2 gold per city, 1 happiness per city, more with other wonders/buildings), courthouses, which are absolutely necessary for expansion (whether it be through settling or through conquest) and Caste System which is great for a Specialist Economy.
But enough of the benefits of CoL. We can get the oracle rather easily, however the tricky part comes in when we don't have bronze, and we've already spent some time on the other techs. We need archery, and either Animal Husbandry or Iron Working to defend ourselves. AH and IW are both crapshoots, as we just have to get lucky with hidden horses or iron. The other tech we need is going to be pottery (and we need to research writing while construction of the oracle is underway.)
Most likely the research path will have to be Animal Husbandry --> Archery/Pottery --> Mysticism --> Polytheism --> Priesthood --> Writing
Animal Husbandry is put first since we have a settler on the way, and if we have horses than we need to know where to settle. If we do have horses, it is possible to delay archery, but if we don't, archery is going to be a mus. Iron Working takes a while, and would probablly put the Oracle out of the picture if we needed it.
Now while doing all this, wed be cycling production between units, granaries, barracks, and definitely a settler or 2 and worker.
This way we get a religion, get a wonder, and keep a strong enough military to defend ourselves from barbs, napoleon and bismark.
This part is a little into the future, and does not have to be sued with the rest of the strategy:
After this is all said and done, we would look to bribe Napoleon into war against Bismark, wait until they weaken each other and invade France. We should wipe him out, and possibly later take out Bismark. Napoleon declares war easily so he will be easier to bribe and Bismark expands fast, so we cant let him get out of control. Napoleon is a definite threat to us, so we need to dispose of him, and Bismark comes in a close second.
I'm a builder at heart, too. Horses are for offensive capabilities. I'm in the peaceful and religious category.
