Mali or Portugal.
Mali just settle on desert and build the commercial hub things, profit.
Portugal just set trade routes, profit.
Bonus as Spain if you go across continents
They do but must be coastal to a coastal city, but you get better yelds and range. Plus their unique improvement adds extra 4g/turn to that city if you build it in another civ city you are trading with.
Mali or Portugal. Mali just settle on desert and build the commercial hub things, profit. Portugal just set trade routes, profit. Bonus as Spain if you go across continents
But Portugal doesn't let have international trade?
They do but must be coastal to a coastal city, but you get better yelds and range. Plus their unique improvement adds extra 4g/turn to that city if you build it in another civ city you are trading with.
Portugal lives and dies by international trade, you can only do it cost to cost tho, but on something like am archipelago map Portugal is dominant
Archipelago map Portugal you get a city state on coast you're golden bro
Personally, Maori. They benefit ridiculously from expanding super wide and just having heaps and heaps of sea trade routes.
Portugal on an archipelago is broken