What's your favorite ancient civilization?
The Babylonians.
>Inb4 "for reking the jews"
The Persians
>inb4 "for reking the babs"
Minoans
Kilwa
Kind of basic, but I really like ancient Rome.
The Greeks
>inb4 "for reking the persians"
The Romans
>inb4 "for reking the greeks"
I don't like civilizations. They're the entire problem. Give me some Celtic or Germanic tribe living in a village/hamlet any day. Keep your cold artificial high walls and systems by the man limiting your freedom.
The Germans
>inb4 "for reking the Romans"
>>535069
That's what the Goths were saying just before 40,000 of them showed up at the borders of Byzantium pleading to enter as refugees from the Huns.
I've been an Egyptfag since I was about 4.
Civilization and shit.
>>534773
Etruscans
because they are a non-meme civilization that seems like it had a lot of qts.
It's a tie between Aztecs and Egyptians.
>No aztec / egypt qt
>>535417
>Aztecs
>Ancient
Babylonians, mostly for their mythos, their codification of laws and their monuments. My first real education on ancient civilization was from the Age of Empires campaigns when I was about 9 or 10. Babylon really hit it for me.
Israelites
>inb4 "they rekd nobody"
>>535120
and then sacking rome
>>535471
Did they actually 'rek' anyone? At least in the classical era? Obviously in the modern era they have beaten the Arabs a few times.
>>535586
israelits dont even existings
>>535639
Of course they did.
>>534773
Khmer Empire
>inb4 "...
The Emus
>inb4 "for reking the Aussies"
>>535639
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habiru
Pre-Christian Alexandria because
>muh lost books
>muh lighthouse
>mhu Astronomy waifu
>>534773
Palmyrians
>Inb4 "for sucking and being shorlived"
wait what,
>there once was a time Italians ruled the world
>>534773
USA
>>536750
>there was once a time when Persians ruled the world
>there was once a time when Greeks ruled the world
>there was once a time when Italians ruled the world
>there was once a time when Arabs ruled the world
>>534773
Ave.
Sure is barbarical in here.
The late Roman Empire. It's underrated as fuck because people keep following Gibbonian memes like "muh decadence", "muh powerful aristocracy" and "muh Christianity". The world saw nothing of its like again for over a millenium.
>>534773
I'm deeply in love with all the Mediterranean thalassocracies and insular civilizations.
China during the Tang or Sung Dynasty.
>>534773
Mesopotamian Civilization
>>535586
Lol yeah read the bible
>>537130
for causing the bronze age collapse
>>536694
If only though...
>dfw no qt reking the romans
>>534773
Minoan Civilization is pretty cool. They had running water and women walked around with their titties hanging out and jumped over bulls for fun.
Hittites, first masters of politics and negotiation.
>>534773
Have to go with the greeks, nicer development of science and philosophy than egyptians, and not as imperialist and warmongers as romans. Also stopped persians from getting into europe with 300 men and a great general
>>537421
>Also stopped persians from getting into europe with 300 men and a great general
Falling for that meme, shaking my head my next of kin.
>>537426
Any arguments? it's known that the battle of thermopylae and salaminas were decisive in the defeat of the persians
>>537444
Well yeah there were 300 Spartians, but there were at least 3000 other soldier from other Polis'.
>>537444
Thermopylae is only considered important because it's one of those tales people can talk about valor even though it was a colossal fucking loss for the Greeks. Sure, they slowed the Persians down for a few days, but they lost a Spartan King plus several thousand men.
Then Xerxes was able to do whatever he wanted and burned Athens to cinders while the majority of Greeks hid behind their wall on Corinthian Isthmus.
>>537462
Spartans were the only elite soldiers from all the greek cities, rest(arcadians, corinthians and other peloponesians) were pretty much insiginificant compared to them. Anyway, it's a fact that persian army was significantly way more numerous than any greek army, and they've got rekt hard.
Someone show me better pagans than the Greeks or Romans (inb4 Vikings)
>>537492
Slowing down the persians was exactly what they wanted, it was obvious that 300(or 3000, whatever) greeks wouldn't stop hundred of thousands of persians. The point was slowing them down and inflicting them as much damage as posible in order to give more time to the rest of the greeks to organize and defeat them later, which is what happened. They sacrified themselves for the greater good, if it weren't for those lacedemonians we would be speaking persian or arab right now.
>>537502
>if it weren't for those lacedemonians we would be speaking persian or arab right now.
I seriously hope you don't actually believe that.
>>537512
Do you have any dimension of what the persian empire was at that time?, they would have crushed the entire european tribes in europe at once. Outside mediterranian cities, the rest of europe was pretty much in the stone age.
They would have been twice the roman empire.
>>537523
Do you know how many times the Persian Empire got almost "destroyed" for various reasons and just barely got "saved" or had to be pretty much started from scratch.
The Perso-Grecian war started because the Greeks started to intrude on Persian territory, or rather the whole dispute about Greek colonies in Asia Minor.
Anyway my point being Persian had no need to conquer "Europe", and even if they would, they'd collapse sooner or later, just like Alexander's Empire, Rome and so many others.
Was it "nice" that the underdog won through great military training? Sure, but that's it. It wasn't the clash of the civilisation that could be easily transcribed into modern geopolitics or whatever, and in the end it really didn't mean that much for our present.
>>537558
According to herodotus The Persian-Greek war was started because Persians were affraid of the greeks making the first move
>Anyway my point being Persian had no need to conquer "Europe",
Persia was an empire and same as any other empire its main objective is to expand and annex other civilizations into its orbit, that what they did with all the civilizations in middle east and that's what they wanted to do with the greeks.
> and even if they would, they'd collapse sooner or later
No shit sherlock. Problem is that empires re-shape entire regions. Look what happened to greece after the byzantine empire and then after the ottoman empire, you can barely find any ancient greek tradition or place in good conditions in greece that relates to ancient greece. Modern greeks have absolutely nothing to do with ancient greeks except for the alphabet and a lot to do with their ottoman past.
>>537582
>Modern greeks have absolutely nothing to do with ancient greeks except for the alphabet and a lot to do with their ottoman past.
That was kind of my point, and it would still be true, even if Greece would remain independent for all this time. I mean look at Persia, other than a "brief" (in context of their entire history) subjugation under Ummayads and whatever, they were pretty "independent". Changes are bound to happen one way or anotehr.
>>534891
haha
>>536694
>likes Palmyrians
>posts her
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>>535422
its american history
>>534773
The Estruscan. Quite an interesting civilization and language.
>>537582
>Modern greeks have absolutely nothing to do with ancient greeks except for the alphabet and a lot to do with their ottoman past
>still pushing the Greeks are Turks maymay
Trypillian circa 4000 BC located in modern day Ukraine and Romania.
They had the largest cities of the period in the world.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni-Trypillian_culture
>>537630
its how you identify a /pol/fag, friendo..
>>537611
The Etruscans were ethnically cleansed by the Romans, every one of them was annihilated with their language and customs.
>>535586
The Maccabees rekt the Seleucids in the second century BC
>>537635
cont-
>>537635
>cities
Settlements.
>>535429
upboat XD
>>537734
They had cities which housed up to 30,000 people. At that time period, that was a mega city.
>>537749
This is the Eneolithic age we are talking about. Cities and towns emerged in the Bronze age in Mesopotamia and the Eastern Mediterranean.
>>537764
Go to hell you faggot.
>>537780
>>537582
It started because the Persians got sick of the Greeks fucking around in Ionia. Then after Marathon it became a pride issue, and then it was the Greeks attacking Persian border provinces while they had a thousand other problems going on.
It may have looked impresdive on maps, but both the March of the 10,000 and later Alexander showed that Persian was pretty weak overall.
Xerxes burned Athen because he wanted to prove a point. He didnt give two shits about the rest beyond Greek Historians self fellating.
>>537641
source? I highly doubt that ethnic cleansing on that scale was a thing back then
>>538002
source you back
prove they didn't
>>538012
There is no evidence that Etruscan woman wore socks
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The Assyrians
>Inb4 "for reking the jews"
>>539335
did you speak with ancient Greeks? no? ... fuck off
>>537641
Wut ? Their language died progressively, getting extinct relatively late : they just got "romanized", if that means anything after them having conquered, ruled and inspired the Latin League.
>>535071
The French
>inb4 "for reking the Germans"
>repeat until the end of times
>>535586
i'm not sure but you gotta admire that they got rekt by everybody and still exist. greeks would be jelly to at least make their religion survive.
>inb4 zionist mindcontroller
>>537598
What are you talking about?
Egypt and Rome
Greece overall.
But I get hardest thinking about precursor civilizations like the Minoans and Etruscans.
>>538033
ROMA = AMOR
Rome is literally love.
Whatever civilization is it that made that 40,000 years old statue
>>534773
Hittites. I just like them since they were one of the top dogs in the Bronze Age but are largely forgotten in history.
The Picts
>>541788
>civilization
>>537130
You might like the Nuragics then
>>541788
Holy fuck, someone posting an actually accurate picture of a Pict.
>>534773
Ancient Greeks, Germans, Mycenaean's and I guess Egyptians and Minoans
