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.

>>121
Actually, the hatred for Blacks came when Euros started enslaving them in such scale that they needed a justification for it. That's when they started making up all that bullcrap about blacks being "unintelligent", "dishonest", and all that piss (in style with what Nazis were later to say about Jews to justify Auschwitz & co).

And they triumphed too; >>123 et al still go around believing those lies. With a straight face, at that.


Oh, and don't get me started on why SSA's shittier now than before. That's politics; USA & USSR were pissing their pants worrying that a successful 3rd World nation possibly supporting the others, so they effectively agreed that SSA et al be trampled into the mud.

Case in point: The biggest man-made artificial lake on the planet, is in Africa. Ghana, to be precise, built in 1961-65. It was a part of a national optimism that with the nation now independant, things would be looking up.

...and then the coups began...