Finally, and maybe most importantly, I feel that it may be time to rethink our current research strategy of going for Printing Press(now due in 26 turns). The tech itself has nothing to offer, and serves only as a prerequisite to Democracy and Music Theory, both optional techs.
Since a government of Democracy may not serve our needs in the eventual war with GWT, I feel that we may need to scrap our current research and begin something else.
Our only other two options are Education, which Apolyton already has, and Chemistry, which Apolyton is already researching. If we can get them to give us Education, we could get started on the 40-turn route to Banking while our alles work on researching the tech branches that will help in the war.
What do you think?