Sorry for taking so long! Aside from various personal wackiness, one of my two hard drives decided to....just stop working. Now it shows up again but claims to need to be formatted.....not quite sure what to do about that. Anyways, here's my turn:
1410
Ok, a lot of maitenence needs to be done. Barcelona's about to grow into unhappiness, so I whip the forge there so it can move on to better things
Why is Santiago working on a workboat? I think a Lighthouse is desperately needed there, and switch to that.
I notice that with England's map exchange we can see a civ we haven't met yet - the Persians! I send the area galley to go meet them as soon as possible.
Now, to check our civics situation. We now have a few new ones available (Heridatary Rule, Vassalage). HRule will ameliorate our happiness situation greatly, and Vassalage will pretty much pay for itself - we're already paying high unit support costs, and it is clear that building more and more units is in our future. I make the doubleswap.
1420 - Barcelona's forge finishes, is changed to a harbor.
I see a beneficial resource trade - swapping incense for gold with Peter. Gold gives us +2 happiness in all of the cities that have forges, so it is net beneficial to us...plus trading diplomacy bonuses. Our forces have landed on the small greek island.
IT - the Greeks throw a horse archer against our axeman on their island, and we win.
1430 - First wave against Corinth is victorious
Attacking with other units is more likely to fail, however, so I decide to wait a turn and use our highly upgraded horse archer rather than wasting axemen
1440 - Corinth is taken
I don't think we can afford the city at the moment, so I raze it.
The harbor at barcelona completes, switch to catapult
Osaka builds a longbow, and I put it on a wall
I am at a crossroads here - having explored the Greek homeland some more, I was expecting to find Phalanx, and axemen, and the like....but they have
nothing except for archers and warriors. Yup, the Greek lack both copper and iron, and they don't have feudalism yet. This makes me pause and think for a moment about our strategy - the current plan was to build up a little, and then take the rest of Japan. However, without any significant defenders, the Greek could be mopped up quite easily. However, there aren't many significant resources that we can see the Greek having, and Japan's cities would be better for us to take in the long term. Greece could discover feudalism at any point, and then upgrade all of its archers to longbows...which would make an effort to go after them wasted. So I decide to take peace (no techs, but 80 gold and 2gpt) and gather our forces against Japan. Besides, Japan is DEFINATELY going to attack us at some point, while Alex isnt' in much of a position to for a long time.
1450 - Due to border shifting, we no longer have sea access to Osaka. Which means we're going to have to land our troops somewhere else - I plan to position loaded galleys full of troops right outside Kyoto's borders, to wait for the war declaration.
1460 - Madrid's forge is built, and starts on a catapult
Alex builds Chichten Itza, which make me feel better about my decision to not continue the war against them!
1470 - Toledo builds a forge and switches to...I forget (a harbor?)
1480 - We finally meet Cyrus. He's jewish too (which makes 3 leaders who we have ruined our relations with by razing that holy city...). He won't give us any tech deals, but will sign open borders.
1490. Civil Service comes in, I start research on guilds (yummy conquistadors). I trade it to Peter for Machinery and 180 gold
Osaka finishes walls and starts on another longbow (the hope is that when we declare war, all of Japan's eastern cities will throw their troops against Osaka, while we mop up their capital).
Madrid finishes its catapult, starts on a market.
1500. Liz wants CS for Theology and a handful of gold....I can't decide if I like this trade or not. On one hand, anything to slow her down, and I'd rather use our gold to run deficit research on guilds...but the next player can reconsider that. Cordoba finishes the national epic, and is put on a longbow.
Troops are waiting to attack Kyoto - we're limited by number of galleys we have.
good luck!
I could have sworn I took it 
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