Looking carefully at the map there are coast tiles to the north of Spain, directing a galley over there. India is reachable in like 5 turns, yeeha ! let's hope no-one finds them before
By the way how many Elite wins have we had already ?

and how many leaders ?
30bc : Take Buffalo, move SoD towards Boston.
10bc : Kill a few poor yankees in the open.
10ad : Boston liberated from the American oppressor at the expense of one Elite sword
BUT Jesus creates Barbarossa who sprints to Washington

ibt : Palace extension, you bet.
30ad : troop movements and rush of the FP in Washington.
ibt : another Palace extension, bring it on.
50ad : our Galley gets to those Indians villages and find an iroquois galley parked there as well.
Wow these are my "lucky turns", no offense to Meldor but this game is already in the bag so I'd rather keep those for the Emperor AW game

Thinking about it long and hard I do not need to trade with the others right now as I believe I can get Republic, Currency and Construction from US for letting them keep a tundra fishing village, also if the AIs sell my contacts techs will cost me less without me having to buy those contacts, it's a risky plan but I run the gamble.
70ad : Indeed India sold me around and the French are also quite advanced, the 3 other guys are just totally useless.
90ad : We take Atlanta. Now moving ASAP to finish the US when our Spanish alliance ends.
110ad : moving troops, in the North we do find a new island but lose our galley

At least our map will be priceless

130ad : Spanish raze a worthless US city in the mountains. Just fail to take Seattle, must be a Microsoft bug
150ad : Take Seattle, get WM+ all treasury, Republic, Construction and Currency from the US.
I then go to the ******** Iros to trade Currency for Poly. We enter the Middle Ages but without any message so I close & open again the diplo screen and our free tech is....Engineering ! :jump:
Talk about lucky turns, but check this the French have Feudalism and Mono and the Indians only Mono [dance]
Trade Engineering+WM+contacts around, spend no money and get Mono, Feudalism, Monarchy, WM, bankrupt all AIs (except France)
We now have 1106g to play with

Massive horse upgrade anyone ?
We should revolt right now to get to Republic ASAP, up to next leader to make the decision.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/MLDR01-150_AD.zip