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.

>>4

Nubia was before Egypt. I don't know what the fuck people's problem is, but all this shit is basically common knowledge and the reason it seems "unbelievable" is because of what a shithole Africa presently is. Valid point, by my reasoning, but not enough to outright deny what we already know to be true, particalurly about greek philosophers. Didn't Plato and the rest have their induction ceremonies in pyramids? READ HIS WRITINGS BEFORE YOU START TALK SHIT ABOUT ANCIENT AFRICA. Logic dictate that if Modern Man came out of Africa, so did modern thinking. It didn't just fucking "POP UP" when people's skin color changed.