It only just occurred to me that the civilisation abilities amounts to an extended paper/scissors/rock situation, especially when creating the game. You will always hope to start next to civs which are vulnerable to your advantages, while simultaneously hoping not to have certain civs as neighbours
For example, if you select Greeks as your civ, you would not want Zulus as close neighbours, while the Indians would be quite welcome, i would think.
What civs are going to be vulnerable to which other civs? Comments, please!