This is worth some 23 gpt, or +20% science at a slight deficit (back to 80%!)

Meanwhile, Washington and Monty decide to make peace, Washington being down that city.

In 3055, I am announced by Pliny to be the largest civilization in the world, followed by Gandhi, Washington, Khan, Monty, and Alex.

You know, some days this game confuses me:

The difference there is...what, exactly?

In 1380, Zhang Heng, who apart from being a Great Engineer (for 2 stockpiled in Paris), apparently did some interesting things in China back in the day. One of the things I love about Great People is that there are a bunch of them I don't have a clue about, so I get to keep looking up interesting people. In any event, Zhang and Archimedes will likely end up someday as wonders.

But not, apparently, the Hagia Sophia, which falls to...somebody in 1385. That same turn, I trade Alex Divine Right for Engineering, and then trade Khan Divine Right for Compass and 90 gold. I'm still down Paper to Alex, Philosophy and Banking to George, and Music and Philosophy to Gandhi, none of whom are trading. I'm also down HBR to everyone in the world, but who cares?

The next turn, Banking comes in, and we go for Philosophy, more or less because nobody's got Angkor Wat yet, and I might as well snag it while I'm around.

You may remember a war with Monty I had a while ago. Well, check this out:

+6 with Khan, +9 with Monty. This is despite Tours, which has Versailles, Chichen Itza, the Heroic Epic, 7527 culture, and is taking over half Khan's base by itself, not to mention what it's doing to Monty.

OTOH, relations with the rest of the world? Not so good. Gandhi's Annoyed at -4, Alex is Cautious at -1, and Washington has an ugly -7 Annoyed.

In 1410, Philosophy comes in, and we start on Nationalism for the obvious wonders. Lots of people are now up Optics and Music on me, and while I COULD trade Guilds off for them, I won't quite yet.

Remember this? Well, Archimedes built it.

Why Washington, with the giant lead time he had to build it, didn't, well, who knows.

Why, in 1425, both Alex and Gandhi go Theocracy/Vassalage, I'm not sure I want to know.

In 1430, Khan gets Guilds, Drama, and 50 gold for Optics and Compass. I am now down Gunpowder to George and Paper to Alex. Just to finally get HBR, I trade Compass to Monty for it.

In 1445, I pull St. Paul at Rhiems. I'm not sure what to do with him, really. I can save 4 turns on Paper by autodiscovering it, or I can join it with a city and make a specialist worth +2 hammers, +5 gold, +3 science, and +2 culture. Rhiems looks like a good spot for it, so I merge Paul in.

Alex declares on Gandhi in 1450, which rather explains that whole civics thing. This might be a good time to note that there are pretty much three camps in the world: First is the Jewish camp with me, Monty, and Khan. Second is the Confucian camp with George and Alex, and third is Hindu Gandhi. So far as I can tell, each camp is reasonably hostile to the others. Despite that, Gandhi is still one of the world tech leaders.

In 1460, Nationalism comes in, and we start on Paper. Rather shortly thereafter: