My expansion went fairly well and after the end of the first year I saw that I bordered Abysia, Uruk, and Mictlan.

Abysia wanted friendly relations which I had no problem with since fighting high prot fire resistant heavy infantry seemed like it would be a bad time for me. The river and heat scales also created an especially chokey border between us.

Uruk and Mictlan went to war with each other and Mictlan sent me a message encouraging me to attack Uruk. I opted to stay out of it since there was still a ton of unclaimed territory to my north. I was expecting to find another cap there, but just ended up at Uruk's southern border with a small border with Ashdod to the west.