ancient civilisations and empires in history

let's list 'em.
off the top of my head, there's ancient greece (philosophy! sculpture! tragedy!), rome (gladiators), the byzantine empire/constantinople (mosaics, awesome architecture), ancient india (uh.. elephants?), ancient egypt (pyramids and papyrus!) .. ancient china (vases, funny hats and robes), feudal japan (ninjas)

am I missing any? add please.

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Are you claiming that those traits aren't genetic then? Remember that those gorillas in one forest might be of different races too. Race is universal to animal kingdom and occurs in every species. I'm not claiming that there are lesser or greater human races. I'm not racist, nor I'm the uninformed guy who claims that white race developed modern thinking. I'm just saying that there different races in human species, but by no means it means that should mean we should treat some races different than others.