Here's the save since I forgot to include it in my last post. I think that what ended up saving this game for me was the fact that I managed to get Shoshone to be my friend for the entire game which stopped everyone else from warring me and I used Jesuit education to good effect. Additionally, I got the first religion going straight piety, whereas I assume you picked up liberty 3 first. If I were to play this again (assuming still no tradition or liberty) I think that I might try to go theology into beeline workshops instead of picking up aqueducts and such in my cities first, the aqueducts didn't pay off enough to be worth it in my book. I didn't think of generaling a lux from the cs, which is a good plan but kind of backfires since I end up needing to general coal later. I'm mid of confused how your science is so low right now, it's turn 107 and your cap is 34! population but you have like 1/3 of my science at the same time.