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much river
water is the basic of life
i didnt use wine (drunken workers dont do their job *g)
and no gold (it brings many shields, but no food)
city growth is the keypoint. every resource is connected to a certain terrain, but most terrains have low food, therefore not that useful. and you cannot set the resource where you want to, that makes it harder.
basically i built marketplace and aqueduct (in many cities there is simply not enough time to build more LOL )
it´s funny, when i started with this "test" i used an ordinary random map and my first figures were:
1st future technologie: 1530 ad
throne finished: 1625 ad
spaceship launched: 1700 ad (i skipped this one, because you cannot launch spaceship before christ )
all wonders: ? i didnt watch it on my first try
the wise: ? i didnt watch it on my first try
there was much time to build any kind of cityimprovements, but when time became less and less i had to reduce to the real essential improvements. this aspect i liked most, to find out what is really necessary, and it ended up in basically two improvements as you can read above.

@pipo
no, you can use every windows from 95 on (maybe even win 3.0, i am not sure)