Exploration :
On Inland Sea, I always try to circle the map with the initial unit, so as to meet the Ais and unlock trade routes / religious spread.
So, the scout finds Brennus to the S, SW behind some jungle barrier, then there's Pericles, and then he'll remain stuck on flatland, moving 1 tile per turn back and forth to evade barbarians.
Inland Sea is often a nasty template with barbarians but, having several cows and horses, the capital has enough production to make up for the lack of that unit.
Tech path :
Capital is not working anything else but special resources for a long time,
Scout found pigs to the south, accessible with a riverside city,
We're CREative, don't need much tech,
Go, go Writing into Alphabet.
City :
This is a clear case of settler at size 4.
Capital could train 3 warriors before growing there :
City 2 will immediately start on a Library, so that we can build a Quickademy in the capital.
This is the place :
And there's a corn city site to the North :
After the settler for city 2 is done,
Because of the barbarian pressure, the capital builds a couple of chariots, while growing from size 4 to 5.
We get vision over a new potential city site to the W, ivory and floodplains lying further towards Willem Von Orange.
Scout found Monty deep in the West. Brennus founded Judaism and will soon spread it to us :
Beshbalik is settled with cows in the 2nd ring to speed up development, while Karak takes up its floodplains.
2000 BC :
Still only 2 cities and 1 worker, due to skipping Bronze Working and having to build Chariots.
Cows city to the W proves more accessible than the corn city to the North, so I'm settling there, next.
A barb city spawned by the Western floodplains, which is fine, I suppose.
Scout is still blocked by barbarians but has met Catherine.
3 turns to the settler, 2 turns to library (hire 2 specs at size 3)
In retrospect, I put some partial turns of farms here and there but I never did farm the floodplains.
So I guess I would be in a better position (@ Alpha beeline), had I skipped Agriculture.
It's possible I did not anticipate the timings very well (2 cows, oasis, settler @ size 3, settle pigs, skip agriculture ? Maybe that should be a clear plan on turn 5.).
I don't know, it's kinda hard to make that decision with corn in the 3rd ring.
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) and, after the plains cows are done, we'll follow up with the horses ( 
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