Hmm basically you need to decide whether to go cottage economy or GP economy, i prefer the GP economy as it means you always have larger cities-therefore the ability to switch to production etc if need be and also because-who cares if a farm gets detroyed whereas if a town gets pillaged then your in deep doo doo, basically if you build libs in them cities and have some scientists in all of them you should be able to get under double figure research for them at about 50% if need be
though dont run at 50%- run at 0% or 100% this way the gold/beaker numbers arnt rounded down and you get the maximum amount for each
until you get them sugar and stuff though you should use the whip to get rid of unhappy citizens-high food cities
-which looking at the map you dont seem to have that many of, you should really build some farms to get your cities to grow because this will increase just about everything else, you probably have the largest number of *Actual* troops but because of your lowish pop this isnt obvious-good or bad thing you decide
it'll also be very difficult to take out nottingham due to its hills/archers/culturaldefence/archer promos- until cats it probably isnt even worth trying, if there are any other cities you should focus on them and raze em
, leave nottingham for awhile- Liz aint going to be able to keep up in tech so you can even wait till grens-if you really really want too!
good thing about rome is that when you get CoL you get cheap courthouses-so whip/chop your way to these as quickly as possible, id settle south of that stone because it'll get you the stone and the fihies-the stone leads to some v good wonders if you can get it hooked up quick enough
for instance not sure what date it is but the pyramids would be usefull.
erm thats all theres probably more that better players will pick up on