4 cities, all in great locations on rivers. Thanks to Uluru and Pantheon I got my own religion and started growing my cities really big. The Huns were busy killing Shoshone. However, mean Russians came a bit later and killed them both around T150 or so. The rest of the game was peaceful except Russian war against Morocco with me between them. However, I did not see any troop movement so who knows why even AI DoW this way. Russians were denounced a few times by other civs but not me, I tried to stay friendly.
I could not believe how much French loved crab, is it so popular in french cuisine?
My 1st luxury resource 3 cities requested was crab which was nowhere near to find. I did find it eventually in the middle of the ocean on the island and settled a city there which I sold to Carthage. The 2nd crab I saw was near Carthaginian city but in a location where I could not settle my own city. So I got crabs after years and years of looking for it (~150 turns later).
WF was won by around T190 but barely since Russia had a huge empire by then. They were also the biggest culture at the end with 17K. Nowhere near my 57K
I used 2 musicians in Russia and 1 musician in Portugal to finish the game.
Burned 4 GWs after WF which gave a huge culture boost.
Wonders:
Eiffel Tower, Louvre, ND, Broadway, CN Tower, CI, Hanging Gardens, Pisa, ToA, Uffizi, Sistine, Oracle, Globe Theatre.
Policies: Full Trad, Rationalism, and Aesthetics, Patronage opener, some in commerce.
Ideology: Freedom
Religion: Pantheon +2 faith from quarries; pogodas and +1 gold for every 4 followers, and 15% growth.
Thanks for the map.