Continuing 975 AD: Victory Screen: 2% world area 6% world population
IBT: Spear killed by Turkish Archer (0, 1); Archer killed by Archer (0, 2).
1000 AD:
eEnslaver captures Viking Warrior (1, 2).
Archer kills Turkish Archer (2, 2); Enslaver captures Archer (3, 2); eRatha kills Spear (4, 2);
IBT: Spearman kills Turkish Archer (5, 2); Spearman kills Catapult (6, 2);
1025 AD:
Battle for Istanbul:
Rathas and Horseman kill 2 Turskish Spearmen we lose 1 Horseman (8, 3); eEnslaver kills Spearman (9, 2).
1050 AD:
Battle for Istanbul:
We lose a Horsearcher and and Archer and kill 2 Turkish Spearmen (11, 5); Enslaver kills Spearman (12, 5); Ratha kills Camel (13, 5). Istanbul is captured.
It is renamed Istanbul-Constantinople since “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” is to long.
Horsearcher is killed by Turkish Archer. (13, 6).
1075 AD:
Enslaver kills Turkish Archer (14, 6).
1100 AD:
A French Archer shows up Northeast of Lissan. The French know 4 techs we do not know and have 7 cities. They do not want to surrender their meager empire to us.

As a result of their poor decision, we Declare War on them.
Archer kills French Archer (16, 6).
eEnslaver captures Turkish Archer (17, 6).
1125 AD: A
Battle for Aydin:
Horsearcher kills Turkish Spearman (18, 6); Horsearcher kills Spearman (19, 6). Aydin is liberated.
IBT: Golden Archer killed by Turkish Chariot (19, 7).
1150 AD:
Battle for Iznik:
eRatha kills Turkish Spearman (20, 7); Enslaver kills Spearman (21, 7); Horsearcher kills Archer (22, 7). Iznik is liberated.
eHorsearcer kills Turkish Chariot (20, 7);
IBT: Great Library is built in South Africa.
1175 AD:
War Elephant stomps out Turkish Spearman (21, 7); Spearman kills Archer (22, 7).
Battle for Edrine:
Horseman killed by Turkish Spearman (22, 8); eRatha kills Spearman (23, 8); eEnslaver kills Spearman (23, 8). We get a Great Leader.
The Leader rushes an Academy is Istanbul-Constantinople.
Horsearcher kills Camel Warrior (24, 8). Edrine is liberated.
1200 AD:
Battle for Bursa:
Horsearcher killed by Spearman (24, 9); Enslaver kills Spearman (24, 9); Horsearcher kills Spearman (25, 10). Bursa is liberated. The weak Truks have been destroyed.
With the Turks destroyed we are at war with 5 nations and we do not know were any of them are.
IBT: Austria-Hungary wants to make peace. They refuse to give me their Capital, their other 5 cities, and the 3 techs they know that we do not. So we respectfully decline their offer.
Philosophers Stone is completed in Eqypt.
1225AD:
& 1250 AD: Build Infrastructure and search for our enemies.
IBT: A French force (a Horsearcher and 7 Chariots) shows up North of Aydin. The French came into view from the Northwest.
1275 AD:
Horsearcher kills French Horsearcher (26, 10).
Time for a new Field Marshall.
Victory Screen: 2% world area 8% world population
We are about to learn Philosophy. I have us scheduled to start on Religion next. This will allow us to build the School of Divinity. Besides getting Priests it acts as a barracks.
Instead of Religion, we might want to learn Trade → The Republic. Republic lets us build Colosseums and Gupta Cataphracts which can be upgraded to Indian Knights when we learn Chivalry.
Cataphracts have the same cost to build as War Elephants. They have the same stats as War Elephants build lack the extra Hit point and Blitz ability. War Elephants first up grade is to Hussars (need Absolutism).
Aydin has started building a Desert Fort (acts as a barracks). When the land around Ayden gets improved, Ayden should be a good production city.
Bombay’s fat cross is almost fully developed. What I had intended to do next turn was move workers/slaves from the small stack southwest of Bombay to the stack of workers/slaves southeast of Bombay and finish the mine. That will free up many workers/ slaves.
Here is the core of our empire: