1565 AD (5)
Australia is being a total jerk, and we simply can't trade for incense. I don't want Gems from the Iroquois, as we may be fighting them soon.
Our best use of airfields is to send conscripts to our islands to disband for shields. Some of the southern islands still have a decent number of tiles to claim.
Air bases are going up like crazy in Africa. This is going to become the fastest way to get workers / troops to the Asian islands along with Greenland when that invasion starts.
Junk 4 is formed in Africa.
The war horns sounds, and war begins with Russia.
We capture Chita, the oddball city in Siberia. We also get an artillery piece and 2 workers. Stupid size 1 city has a resistor.
We capture Vladimir with 4 resistors.
We capture St. Pete with the obsolete Great Wall and Oracle, 1 worker, and 5 artillery pieces. We gain 6 more resistors.
We capture Leipzig and I now have a land route to Scandinavia. We gain 2 more resistors.
We capture Pharsalos. We gain 3 more resistors.
The bombers hit Moscow, and then the army blitz begins. It is captured with the obsolete Knights Templar and 6 resistors. We gain the valuable Smith's Trading Company. With the number of markets we have it should be worth a lot of GPT. We really don't need more, but we gain 3 more workers.
This just gives us an opening to capture Novogorod with an army blitz. We gain yet 5 more resistors.
I find multiple stacks near Smolensk, and begin to bombard like crazy. Quite a few settlers were covered by units in this area. The city is captured, destroying some ships in port, gaining 2 workers, and yet more resistors. With the city captured, I can work on the rest of unit stacks. I have to draft another round of troops to finish the last units of, and give me more resistance squashers.
Knosos is captured. We only get stuck with one resistor.
Rostov is captured. We get another 5 resistors.
We have 2 armies drop to 1 HP by Yaroslav.

With 25 pop points, I simply burn the city to the ground. We get 3 artillery pieces, and a ton of workers.
Burnt Rubble is built to replace it.
Border Lock is built at the edge of Scandinavia.
At this point I've run out of any unit to attack with. I am still trying to rescue some armies trapped on islands.
(IT) We lost our ivory supply.

I don't want to trade with the Iroquois right now.
Peking riots and I get to scroll through our 250+ cities looking for rioters.
We know own 46% of the world.