Welcome back, civvers!
When we last left off, the Ottomans took full control of Egypt, the Indians lost their second oldest city, Hyderabad, to instability, and the Malinese founded Awlil, only for the city to be undefended and surrounded by barbs.

And now onto today's action!
We start on turn 245, where the barbs start out by destroying...
What!?

Well, the Malinese caught an enormous break here. Apparently they already had slavery enabled, must of slaughtered everyone in Awlil to train a unit of skirmishers, and the skirmishers managed to defeat both barb war elephants. I'm calling this one the
Awlil Miracle.
In other news, the Khmer have expanded off of the Asian mainland, settling the city of Jayakarta on the island of Java:
Turn 246: Oh, no!!

And that's another nation down. Four nations have now fallen - Egypt and Ethiopia fell at the same time, overwhelmed by barbs and natives, Babylon fell a few turns ago to the Turks, and now the Indian's own instability destroyed India. If there's any bright side about this, at least now Persia has a chance to prove itself on the battlefield.
Elsewhere, the Inca have settled their fourth city, Chan-Chan, to the south of the ruins of the native city of Tucume:
With no natives from Tucume to bother them, the Inca aren't doing too badly. If only they didn't have that nasty plague to deal with...
Turn 247: The Vikings expand into Finland for the first time, settling Vasa in Finnish Lapland, right on the border with Germany:
Of course, now the Germans are going to be even more pissed off at the Vikings than they already are. German-Viking war, anybody?
Turn 248: Nothing.
Turn 249: The Mongols begin expanding to the west, founding the city of Karamay:
Meanwhile, the Turks are having some problems in Egypt:
Remember the city of Abu Simbel, to the SW of Luksor? Yeah, it's gone. I don't know who did it (as whoever did it is dead, courtesy of some Turkish Janissaries), but even with the Turks in charge, Egypt simply isn't getting any peace.
Also for this turn, another new native city has jumped up, this time Mbanza Kongo on Africa's western shores:
Turn 250: Nothing happened this turn, but take a look at this picture of the Mayans:
Ouch. The plague has absolutely crippled the Mayans, who, despite having four cities, only have three units to defend themselves with (two of the units in Oaxaca are galleys). The Aztecs don't have the plague atm, so they have declared war on the Mayans, ready to take advantage of this.
And with that, it's time for this update to end. I did play one more turn to get to 1500, but nothing happened. Next time, we'll see if the Mayans can withstand the Aztecs' assault while they're still crippled by plague (about the plague, I don't think this is the smallpox plague, as there are no Europeans in the New World, not even boats. I think they just got unlucky and happened to catch one of the other plagues), and we'll see if any nation tries to take advantage of the situation in the now splintered India. Stay tuned!