UPDATE 3.
--Many nations tried to build a city on resources that were too far away, the citys were built closer to the resources, but not on them, the other resources that were close enough were built on as told by orders.
as rome expands and takes most of italy, the ceasar dreamed of taking the island of sicily, but there was no way to do so! to get there, there must be ships built, and to build ships rome needed timber, timber that they simply did not have.
the egyptians continue to expand by the nile river, as the settlers move south, their copper army defended them, the Ra god believers had no other hope but to retreat south, no battles have occured yet...
the philistianians expand to a luxury, it appears them and the Jewish nation will remain under peaceful relations.
NEW barbarian nations:
The Ligurians, or greeco-roman beliefs, have created a somewhat large empire in modernday south france.
france, spain, and romans have comunications due to the ligurians.
From Liguria
to rome:
care for an allience? and peace.
the Cyrenaicans
as north africans moved south to gather more resources, they were surprised to find a civ already there, they are of christian beliefs and have little or no military. they are peaceful and good traders.
From Cyrenaica:
to north african empire:
what is the name of your empire? we are the cyrenaicans, we are peaceful, please sign a NAP w/ us.
From Cyrenaica
to Egypt:
hello brothers! we too are Christians!

might our empires prosper ! we heard of your war, and would help, but we dont have any military forces.
tunisia, and egypt have communications due to the Cyrenaicans.