European discovery of America mod. The year is around 1500 AD
The map shows North and South America.
You can start as the Incas or Aztecs, each with a well-established, populous, wealthy but tech-poor empire.
Or as a native American tribe somethere inland in the continental US (perhaps the Mississipi River valley), about to found their first city in rich land. A challenge, this Civ.
Or be the Spanish or Portuguese - each starts with a couple of galleons floating off the coast of central and south america, full of conquistadors, explorers and muskets, some Catholic missionaries and a settler - but NO CITIES (Europe is off the map). Don't lose that early settler!
A bit further north, the French and the English - also no cities, but a few more boats each full of units, a settler and with some good techs. Protestant missionaries.
Barbs are RAGING around the southern tip of the continent, in the Brazilian jungle and throughout North America. They are less common in the Caribbean islands.
There are LOTS of goody huts and plenty of resources.
GO for it!