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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the macedonian army and warfare strategy was the best in it's time during alexander's rule, nothing else comes close. besides, china's  was still too busy fighting each other during the warring states period, i doubt alexander would have a hard time dealing with the masses of troops from the seven states combined thrown at him if he decided to push eastward instead of retiring back to babylon and dying a young death.