Turn 7, 620AD:
Why... HELLOOOOOO!
We meet the Aztecs, and no guys, they are NOT in the ancient ages as we had all hoped

. BUT they only have up on us Republic, Mono, Lit, and Feud along with those other contacts. Checked with my DoWs and the current turns (this is turn 177) and shamefully we must declare on Monty after doing some MUCH NEEDED and LONG DENIED trading

. Communications being priority number 1. Our WM is worth lit, TM, 1gpt and 13 gold. Hmmm... Each individual contact is worth our English contact and WM with the Iroqouis just English Contact. French, English contacts worth more in gpt and packaging in a second contact gives us an upgrade to Japanese contact. I'll bite the bullet and pray for Monty's neighbor's to be NOT too backward.
Trade German contact for Iroquois Contact, Lit, 13 gold (all). Great, next up, seeing if I can possibly get Mono or Feud. Any combo of 4 contacts gives us Jap contact, Feud, and TM. He's already furious with us, which I can't figure out why since no they haven't heard of our defiant, barbaric ways yet. Oh wait, selling him the contact instantly gives him knowledge of our bloodthirsty ways? I'm guessing the other AIs are not going to be too pleased with us as well, so I'll save those contacts for them and trade with them instead. And oh yes,
we must declare, see you in Hades Monty

! Dial up Hiawatha now, he really looks regal in that black outfit. He is annoyed.
His DoW will be turn 192, which is 15 turns from now, again, I'm avoiding gpt deals. Fortunately he has the same diplo set up as Monty.
Trade German contact for Indian contact + 1 gold (all). Dial up Gandhi, and finally, someone is Polite to us. He is our choice partner, since his DoW will not be for another 35 turns. Also
trade German contact for 4 gold (all) + TM. They have a fairly nice sized country. Gandhi trading now involves
Russian, Babs, American Contacts for Jap contact and Feudalism, done. Tokugawa, annoyed, actually offers us the
best deal on mono by just taking English Contact, while Gandhi wants gold and our WM... DONE. Chivalry is available, and it's only known by India! Hehe... I smell alliance bargaining chip.
WM + French Contact to Tokugawa for WM. And WOW... That is a lot of Aztec land... And unfortuntely, no short way for that continent to reach ours... But there is a sea route it seems to our east, so... I
sell the rest of our contacts, plus our WM to Gandhi to get 100 gold. This will give me embassy cash, but not enough for both India and Japan. Wow, saw the F8, and Japan is numero uno on score and power. I gift Tokugawa German and American contacts, but instead of possibly getting better deal in a different alliance combinations, I actually raised the prices of MAs by giving him more contacts!!!! STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!

And here is more NaCl in the open wound, I just checked that we are NOT allowed to establish embassies... sorry... So I stop further pain by just forgetting about MAs. Oh well, forgive me team and M-B. Finish off this turn by changing a lot of builds to knights, kill some more units, sliders at 10.0.0, +30gpt with engineering in 40 turns. Northern Army ready to deal some pain towards Paris. Awaiting the dogpiling that should be coming from the new world. And this sucks, we can't have MDIs...
EDIT: I forgot to detail the chivalry trade. I can't recall exactly what I traded for it, but it involved our gpt for sure.
IT:
French complete Leo's. Cascade includes Smiths (english) and Copernicus (german)

! And yes, after doing its job, suicidal galley #2 fulfills its namesake

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Turn 8, 630AD:
Horsie to knight upgrade costs 80 while we are at 84, ew...

skip that. Attacking Thermopylae, lose 1 leg kill 1 hoplite, but still has another hoplite left. I bombard Paris' tiles, going 2/5 on that.