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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All non-black civilisations in similiar environments have been succesful. Even those that were at a technological disadvantage, discoverred their own crops, domesticated their own animals and created their own large scale government systems.

Black "civilisations" would have certainly been exposed to plain's crops and domesticated animals from the arabs since the time of ancient egypt. For a brief period when Egypt was being attacked by the Persians, the negroes enslaved by the Egyptian rose up and went north up the nile and set up the last dynasty of Egypt (blacks destroyed the Egyptian empire's status as an independant superpower). For a brief period during the fall of Roman power on the Nile the Aksum Kingdom arose, however this only lastd a few hundred years until the jihad saw arab dominance over modern day Sudan to this day.

This proves without a shadow of a doubt that civilisation was possible in Africa's tropical climate.