Just some advice for your next playthrough: take food and wood from land 4 to the vortex (maaaany wood and food) and a bunch of food and wood miracles. And some artifacts.
Then don't use the miracles until you finished a big north wonder (best to maximize the wonder with an artifact) and if done...
These are some neat ideas. What I'd like to have in B&W3 is altering the landscape, kinda like Populous 3 and From Dust!
Btw you mentioned you'd like to rotate the camera by the middle mouse button like in B&W2, but you can do that in B&W1. In fact, I can't imagine playing the game without that...