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.

>>98
Hey now, the asians weren't all that far behind whitey.  If they had had the urge (now that was cultural, I'll give you that) to go out sailing and shit, they would have been the horrible oppressors that whitey is made out to be.