Some notes on Victory Conditions and the Atlas:
- "in (year)" means you must satisfy all the requirements at the end of the specified year/turn. The following turn, the condition will pass or fail.
- "by (year)" means that you can satisfy the requirements any time before the end of the given year/turn. The condition should be passed the turn following completion of the requirements, otherwise it will fail after the given year.
- "control a civ" basically means just that. You must control (have within your cultural borders) more cities in the given region than the civilization of that region, AND at least 2 cities. If the civilization is not active, one city should be enough to satisfy the condition.