Not only does helping the city states give you tons of bonuses at a relatively low cost, but if you can secure Vatican City, you should rack up the victory points without much issue, between the Roman Catholic Emperor vote and the bonus points for being allied with a holy city. Once you have the faith rolling in from all your friends, you can use it to build up an army that should keep any aggressive neighbors at bay. You don't really need the units early on, and you should be able to start accumulating faith quite quickly by befriending some religious city states.
In terms of faith, I started out by focusing on cathedrals to boost my faith (and culture) output. By the time the first vote occurred, I received 9 votes, and I only had to use money to boost relationships twice. Keep enough of an army so that you can take out barbarian camps as needed. These quests often overlap, so you can gain relationship with several of them at once. Once you meet a city state, you should start getting rapid fire quests from them. Obviously this means that you need to make exploring an early priority, so that you can meet as many city states as possible. Once I had my starting cities down, I focused on city state relations. The game may play quite differently for powers in different parts of the world, so consider this guide to be primarily for western Catholic powers. Since each settler turns into a size 3 city, its important to grow early on, and there are plenty of luxury resources to keep happiness from being an issue. I used this to push the Liberty tree immediately, getting a third settler and extra/faster workers. I played as France, which gives you a bunch of culture at the beginning of the game. I don't have a ton of experience with this scenario, but from what I've experienced so far, the key is the city states.
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