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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alexander's army strength wasn't just relying on his phalangites, it was through combined arms that he win his battles. in fact, for the different opponents and situations that he encountered, he tackled the problem with a different strategy, utilizing the various unit types available to him. when facing the hill clans he dealed with them with more emphasis on other infantry and little to no use of his phalangites.

"there isn't enough good soldiers left" case wasn't true at all. there were plenty of native macedonian soldiers left at his disposal, his army was never "low" on native macedonian and mercenary greek forces such as phalangites, hypaspists, his various cavalry regiments nor other light infantry. in fact, after his death the succesor states still had plenty of these macedonian soldiers to go around fighting each other and everyone else, right up to the roman conquest of the hellenistic world.

figurehead? hardly so. ever heard of vassal states? sure some problems do occur with the local puppet-kings now and then, but that is something quite inevitable, alexander himself executed a number of his military-governors when they misbehaved in his absence.