Trying to play on prince

The three city tech tree blitz is a lot harder when there isn't mammoth piles of AI gold everywhere.

Yup, another good reason to consider going wide. I agree with Soronery when it comes to deity, but OP is asking about Prince.
 
Policies are one of my favorite ways to keep up with happiness. It doesn't matter what kind of game I play anymore, I always try and focus at least moderately on culture. One of the Key ones I go for almost every time I play is Protectionism in the commerce Branch which gives you +1 per Lux resource. With 5 or less cities I would focus heavily on Pop. in my capital and also go for Tradition to Monarchy. Then, aside from that I'd just follow the other suggestions everyone has made; Happiness buildings, as many Lux Resources as you can, trade lots, buy CS's, some Wonders can be Key as well.

I find the bigger games I play the more it causes a huge Boost of hapiness at various points in the game. E.G I recently played Arabia on a Huge map, standard length on King Difficulty, I was playing a 'Monger from the start taking Polynesia and Pachacuti out before 0A.D, which was challenging and fun because they each had UU for that era. I had 2 such boosts during the game, Once when I reached Protectionism, I already had 15+ resources and BAM huge happiness increase. Second happened once I reached police state, I had a boost of over 60 Happiness at one time because I had built over 20 courthouses to keep up with unhappiness until that point.
 
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