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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I am not entirely against affirmitive action, though. For social class where it brings out the potential of those who were basically brought up to fail, be it rednecks, blacks from the ghetto, illegals, whatever, is a good idea. What I'm saying is, I am in advanced classes, I get good grades and whatnot, andI have black and other ethnic friends in my same situation. When it is made easier for them to get into selective colleges, that's when I have a problem with it.

The biggest part about it being easy for me to do well academically is social class, not being white or male. When AA is for solely race or gender, I consider it to be racist/sexist. I'm not trying to be greedy, I don't doubt that I'll be successful in life, its the college thing that irks me, ivy league was pretty much shot once my GPA went to 3.9.

The main reason I'm complaining about Native Americans is because I know one, who's family owns a Treasure Island, and they are millionares. The whole family is lazy drug addicts, they get a free ride their whole life and they don't do anything with it. All for stuff that happened a couple hundred years ago. Seems backwards to me.