The Age of Exploration and Growth
IT- Nothing much to do with only 2 cities.
Russia boots our warrior and he goes north.
2030BC (1): Completed spear allows Seoul to lose the luxury tax. Start settler, which will be built in 4.
1990BC (2): One warrior heads north and the other south. Russia is making 3gpt.
1950BC (3): Exploring.
1910BC (4): Russia now has writing. Lux tax up to 20%.
1870BC (5): Build settler and start curragh in Seoul. Russia founds Rostov. Contact made with the Mongols south of Russia. They have CB, IW, Writing, Math, and Horseback Riding as well as 6 cities after their capital. Hey, at least the big guy isn't Russia. Lose the luxury tax.
1830BC (6): Russia founds Yaroslavl and starte the Oracle in Moscow. Russia now has Horseback. Lux up to 10% for P'yongyang.
1790BC (7): More exploring and working.
1750BC (8): Seoul builds curragh and starts spear. Mongols evict our warrior.
1725BC (9): Found Wonsan, pulling in the second cattle and a bunch of bg. Starts work on a barracks.
1700BC (10): Forest is chopped near Pyong and granary is now due in 13. I choose to not build a road on the unimproved grassland since we will not use that tile for a long time and have very few workers (1.5).
1675BC (11): Contact made with India on a landmass to our east, which may be connected below Russia. India has 8 cities along with their capital and is up CB and IW on us. Seoul builds Spear and starts another Spear. Pyong is at size 3 and now makes 5fpt.
1600BC (14): Contact established with Japan, south of India. Japan has CB, IW, Writing, Math, and Horseback and 8 cities after their capital.
1575BC (15): Seoul switches over to a worker. Without some more labor it cannot get up to 10spt, so 8/9 is no better than 7spt for spears/archers.
IT- India builds the Oracle and starts the Great Library
and the Mongols build the Pyramids.
1525BC (17): Pyong builds granary and starts settler. Contact made with China who is equal with the others and it is definitely a pangaea, not two continents. We definitely weakened Russia with our early war and they'll likely stand no chance in this game.
1450BC (20): Russia renews our peace deal straight up. Spot a great trading opportunity. Japan will not accept 7gpt and 81 gold for Writing, but by switching a bg to a coast tile in Seoul, I can make the deal with 8gpt. India will give Mathematics and 40 gold for Writing. Russia will then give Iron Working and 2 gold for Math. Yikes, I see no Iron or Horses for us. Russia has some iron near Yaroslavl and horses near Moscow and St. Petersburg.
1425BC (21): Some creative micromanagement allows me to keep the lux tax at "only" 40%,
while keeping the Archer and settler due next turn and our food at a good level. We are suffering from high corruption and not enough roaded tiles. Having our capital on the coast is less than ideal. Hopefully we can move it to Pyongyang at some point.
1400BC (22): Settler and archer finish and start more of each, so the lux tax can drop.
1375BC (23): Pyong and Seoul seem to be settling into a nice relationship. Seoul now makes 10spt at size 5, which means it can build 2 archers/spears/cats and then a worker in a 1-growth cycle every 5 turns. Pyong can already make a worker every other turn and with a little more labor will be a 4-turn settler factory.
1325BC (25): Pusan is founded on a gold hill. This will have overlap with Yakutsk until we take it out. Barracks started. Luxury tax has to be hiked up to 50% until we build roads in two tiles near Pyong.
1275BC (27): Pyong builds another settler. There aren't really any city sites left without building against Russian borders, so it goes to workers.
1250BC (28): Russian Archer moves menacingly toward Pusan and I move over an archer and cat to intercept and they back off.
1225BC (29): Russians back off.
1200BC (30): New worker from Pyong starts irrigation on plains which will allow cattle to be irrigated.
Conclusion- We should probably hit the Russians as soon as humanly possible, when we have a dozen archers or so. A good goal would be to take Yaroslavl, Smolensk, and (doubtfully Yakutsk). We desperately need more workers to get Pusan and Wonsan up to speed to build military, and so we can stop working zero-commerce tiles. I think the early war hurt Russia bad enough to make them a pretty easy target, especially if we can quickly take their iron.
EDIT- Just noticed that I forgot to address why I didn't follow the dotmap provided by Charis Kong. With our capital all the way in the north, I thought it better to grab near sites first. Since I was faced with rebuffing the first demand, I thought it especially important to have a compact nation capable of popping out some military. The abundance of BG in the west sealed the deal for me. Russia claimed the eastern dot several turns before I could have in any event.
RBC8-1200BC
IT- Nothing much to do with only 2 cities.
Russia boots our warrior and he goes north.
2030BC (1): Completed spear allows Seoul to lose the luxury tax. Start settler, which will be built in 4.
1990BC (2): One warrior heads north and the other south. Russia is making 3gpt.
1950BC (3): Exploring.
1910BC (4): Russia now has writing. Lux tax up to 20%.
1870BC (5): Build settler and start curragh in Seoul. Russia founds Rostov. Contact made with the Mongols south of Russia. They have CB, IW, Writing, Math, and Horseback Riding as well as 6 cities after their capital. Hey, at least the big guy isn't Russia. Lose the luxury tax.
1830BC (6): Russia founds Yaroslavl and starte the Oracle in Moscow. Russia now has Horseback. Lux up to 10% for P'yongyang.
1790BC (7): More exploring and working.
1750BC (8): Seoul builds curragh and starts spear. Mongols evict our warrior.
1725BC (9): Found Wonsan, pulling in the second cattle and a bunch of bg. Starts work on a barracks.
1700BC (10): Forest is chopped near Pyong and granary is now due in 13. I choose to not build a road on the unimproved grassland since we will not use that tile for a long time and have very few workers (1.5).
1675BC (11): Contact made with India on a landmass to our east, which may be connected below Russia. India has 8 cities along with their capital and is up CB and IW on us. Seoul builds Spear and starts another Spear. Pyong is at size 3 and now makes 5fpt.
1600BC (14): Contact established with Japan, south of India. Japan has CB, IW, Writing, Math, and Horseback and 8 cities after their capital.
1575BC (15): Seoul switches over to a worker. Without some more labor it cannot get up to 10spt, so 8/9 is no better than 7spt for spears/archers.
IT- India builds the Oracle and starts the Great Library
and the Mongols build the Pyramids.1525BC (17): Pyong builds granary and starts settler. Contact made with China who is equal with the others and it is definitely a pangaea, not two continents. We definitely weakened Russia with our early war and they'll likely stand no chance in this game.
1450BC (20): Russia renews our peace deal straight up. Spot a great trading opportunity. Japan will not accept 7gpt and 81 gold for Writing, but by switching a bg to a coast tile in Seoul, I can make the deal with 8gpt. India will give Mathematics and 40 gold for Writing. Russia will then give Iron Working and 2 gold for Math. Yikes, I see no Iron or Horses for us. Russia has some iron near Yaroslavl and horses near Moscow and St. Petersburg.
1425BC (21): Some creative micromanagement allows me to keep the lux tax at "only" 40%,
while keeping the Archer and settler due next turn and our food at a good level. We are suffering from high corruption and not enough roaded tiles. Having our capital on the coast is less than ideal. Hopefully we can move it to Pyongyang at some point.1400BC (22): Settler and archer finish and start more of each, so the lux tax can drop.
1375BC (23): Pyong and Seoul seem to be settling into a nice relationship. Seoul now makes 10spt at size 5, which means it can build 2 archers/spears/cats and then a worker in a 1-growth cycle every 5 turns. Pyong can already make a worker every other turn and with a little more labor will be a 4-turn settler factory.
1325BC (25): Pusan is founded on a gold hill. This will have overlap with Yakutsk until we take it out. Barracks started. Luxury tax has to be hiked up to 50% until we build roads in two tiles near Pyong.
1275BC (27): Pyong builds another settler. There aren't really any city sites left without building against Russian borders, so it goes to workers.
1250BC (28): Russian Archer moves menacingly toward Pusan and I move over an archer and cat to intercept and they back off.
1225BC (29): Russians back off.
1200BC (30): New worker from Pyong starts irrigation on plains which will allow cattle to be irrigated.
Conclusion- We should probably hit the Russians as soon as humanly possible, when we have a dozen archers or so. A good goal would be to take Yaroslavl, Smolensk, and (doubtfully Yakutsk). We desperately need more workers to get Pusan and Wonsan up to speed to build military, and so we can stop working zero-commerce tiles. I think the early war hurt Russia bad enough to make them a pretty easy target, especially if we can quickly take their iron.
EDIT- Just noticed that I forgot to address why I didn't follow the dotmap provided by Charis Kong. With our capital all the way in the north, I thought it better to grab near sites first. Since I was faced with rebuffing the first demand, I thought it especially important to have a compact nation capable of popping out some military. The abundance of BG in the west sealed the deal for me. Russia claimed the eastern dot several turns before I could have in any event.
RBC8-1200BC
(Oh, and nice move on the tech trade! 
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Indeed, and for me it's hard not to be biased by two things:
. An archer from Yakutsk dies attacking our sword. We also get the FP message... 
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