Possible alternative plan (I've used this a couple times on Monarch with coastal resources):
Build Work Boat while researching towards Bronze Working. Work the clams during pop 1 (the WB won't be finished by the time you get to size 2, but you tech faster). Pop 2, work clams + a forest, or clams + floodplain. Try to time it so BW and WB finish at the same time, usually you'll be pop 3 by then. Revolt to BW, WHIP the worker as soon as you can, then we can chop-whip a settler (1 pop whipped on each). We have the food to grow fast, and the happiness to whip repeatedly. We end up with a size 1 city that'll grow in about 4-5 turns, a worker, and a settler. (After the chop, the worker can hook up the gold, then the rice.)
So (New proposed plan):
Build: WB -> Worker (whip) -> Settler (chop/whip) -> Granary?
Research: Mining -> BW (time to come out with work boat) -> Pottery
Worker: Chop settler -> Mine Gold -> Farm Rice -> Cottage FloodPlains
Having the gold hooked up early puts us in a really nice position to get an early library. At size 5, we can work the clams (4 food/2 commerce, 5 food with lighthouse), the rice (4 food, 5 with CS -- make sure to FARM the plains next to the river), the gold hill (7 commerce, 2 hammers), and a floodplains (3 food, 2+ commerce with cottage), with a fifth citizen available as a scientist (early academy?). Before lighthouse and CS I count 4 + 4 + 3 + 2 = 13 food, which is 3 surplus at size 5. Commerce: 8 from palace, 1 (2?) from city square (does the river give the city a bonus commerce?), 7 from gold, 2+ from floodplains, and 2 from the clams, which is at least 20 commerce. The problem is, it's hammer-poor, even with the gold hill. We should mine that plains hill to the north as soon as we have the spare worker-turns, then, because our sixth pop point (when not whip-unhappy) can add 4 hammers there, with 1 food shortage, which will become stable once we get a lighthouse.
If my estimates are anything near correct, we could have our capital pumping 40 beakers by 1000BC, and once CS comes in, that'll be close to 70.
So, plotting even farther ahead:
After writing comes in, research mysticism -> polytheism -> priesthood. Then take alphabet or CoL, depending on our Oracle chances. (Hopefully our second city can be hammer-rich and/or near marble - we don't want to pollute our capital with non-scientist GPPs anyway.) Then literature, for the GLib in the capital. Once that's in we'll really start pumping the scientists, so we could probably go CS (by oracle or otherwise) -> paper -> education (by scientists). Scientists will pop CS, won't they? I think they'd prefer Alphabet, though, and obviously earlier CS is better than later CS. We might have the beakerpower to do it the hard way and still get it at a reasonable date, though. Once education's in, go for Constitution (representation) and then grab the economic techs (guilds->banking->economics). We should probably grab currency earlier, maybe after we get Literature in. Then philosophy -> liberalism (free religion?) -> the later techs. Of course, this is very rough, but hopefully a good enough outline to build off of.
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