From having played Civilization on the "continent" setting and now from having played on the "world" setting, I've come to the conclusion that the major difference between the two is in amount of conflict among the other leaders.
I haven't gone a good three turns into the Industrial Era when this leader is fighting with this one, he wants me to cancel deals with her, she's demanding technologies from me, he wants to go to war...
The amount of effort required to stay on good terms with the neighbors and important allies gets to be ridiculous. I must have given 3 different civilizations the alphabet to make up for not canceling my open borders with the others!
But anyways, I've been working on developing my technology because I want to be the first to develop guns, as Diamond really stresses the importance of them in dominating civilizations. Since I am playing on a lower experience level, I am leaps and bounds ahead of everybody in developing anything, so I am going to wait until I have all the great advancements of gunpowder and maybe airplanes before I start a war for more land.
Heilbroner lauded the invention of automobiles as the spark of America's development, but I figure even Africa could use the mobilization.
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