In hindsight and after reading everyone's reports I made two moves in this game.
Thanks for the comments everyone
The first as Sirian and Sulla both pointed out was keeping that barbarian city. Sulla had the proper plan of using the money from razing to fund deficit research, I just drove myself more into debt.
My second mistake was a result of my first, which was to not get involved in the tech trading early enough. Astronomy lead to a windfall no doubt, but all those turns I took to get there were turns most everyone else spent trading lower level techs and applying them.
Darrell
Thanks for the comments everyone
The first as Sirian and Sulla both pointed out was keeping that barbarian city. Sulla had the proper plan of using the money from razing to fund deficit research, I just drove myself more into debt.
My second mistake was a result of my first, which was to not get involved in the tech trading early enough. Astronomy lead to a windfall no doubt, but all those turns I took to get there were turns most everyone else spent trading lower level techs and applying them.
Darrell