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Short simple list:
Sumerians ~5000BC
Egyptians ~3000BC
Elamites 2700BC (Early Persians...sort of but not really)
Akkadians 2300BC (Sargon's Empire)
Babylonians 1900BC
Assyrians 1900BC
Hittities 1600BC (Early Turks but not at all, just in Turkey)
Carthage 814BC
Romans 753BC
Greeks 600BC
Persians 550BC
Alexander the Great died 323BC

This is a VERY short list but sums up the major names. It also does not really relate to when they were in power. Egypt lasted until essentially Alexander but continued until after Caesar.

EDIT: Formatting and added a few other items.

EDIT2: Heres a cool link if you want a VERY through timeline http://www.ancient.eu/timeline/

Thanks for the warning. I read it on my desktop with adblock plus fortunately.

Edit: Here's a site that has actual instructions for making the beer:

http://byo.com/hops/item/144-archaeobeer

And here's one that has the poem from which the beer recipe was taken:

http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/the-oldest-beer-recipe-in-history.html

I have not tested either one of these for ads spamming, but the links work

That specific one must be one the most beautiful coins I've ever seen. That profile, the dolphins, that horse! Hard to believe it dates from as early as the 4th century BC.

Hi all, I thought this Kindle ebook on Egyptian Mythology might be interesting to members of the community, it's free to download until March 30th. It might be a bit basic for some of the more experienced people here but should make a good introduction to Egyptian mythology for newer readers.

If you enjoy it, an honest review on Amazon would be appreciated. But if you have any criticism, I would prefer you let me know via PM or leave a message here instead of leaving a negative review, so I can get it corrected right away for future readers.

Thanks!

The link above is for the US Amazon site, for your country's regional equivalent, you can change the URL suffix such as:

Canada - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B06XSBT13X

UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XSBT13X

I read something that seemed pretty convincing that these were used to measure distance quickly by viewing the regulation height distance markers through the dodecahedron. source

The article is rubbish. The Inca state only gave out food in times of drought and other such crises. In any case, farmers were taxed in kind by the Inca government and so any reserves were, in effect, their own produce. People were also shifted around the empire to work on government-held lands as a type of labour tax. Neither is it true there was no trading class or commerce. Just because they didn't have currency doesn't mean they didn't trade. The greatest traders ever were probably the Phoenicians and for centuries they didn't have coinage for the simple reason when trading across vast territories a currency only functions if everyone agrees on its value and that is practically impossible between such diverse states as the Incas conquered. The Inca's probably did have a currency of sorts - cloth, highly valued and easily transportable and known to have been stored at Cuzco, regional palaces and temples just as banks keep cash reserves.

http://www.ancient.eu/article/792/

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Dead-Lost-Gardens-Babylon/dp/B00KPQ7KC0

I watched this doc on prime for example. Now clearly I don’t know how valid her argument is or if there is a while YouTube channel debunking her but she seemed genuine.

I’ve seen it listed as a sorta ancient “conspiracy” on a few other sources i don’t have off the top of my head.

A Lego Coliseum?

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Although not perfect, and not exclusively about Caral, this is one of my favorite books to recommend.

Here is a great podcast interview with Sweatman, really worth listening to if anyone is interested in this issue, they talk about unpublished/future work too:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-106-dr-martin-sweatman/id1229324756?i=1000445298480

https://podcasts.google.com?feed=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmZlZWRidXJuZXIuY29tL0Jyb3RoZXJzT2ZUaGVTZXJwZW50&episode=dGFnOmJsb2dnZXIuY29tLDE5OTk6YmxvZy01Mzc3MjQ5NzE4Njk2OTA0NTIxLnBvc3QtNjUyMDg1NTkxOTMxNzY4NzU5

From the Brothers of the Serpent podcast

The thing that they have around their arm is a bracelet. This bracelet is a symbol of divinity, as it represents the sun. The gods often have the same symbol above their head, and all the Assyrian kings and protective spirits have these bracelets to show that they're related to the gods. It was simply a statement of power and importance.

This is quite well explained in the British Museum book "Assyrian Palace Sculptures" (http://www.ancient.eu/books/0714111678/).

They were descendants of the Ubaid culture, yes. It's still unclear where the Ubaid culture comes from, which is why they're called "Proto-Euphrateans", meaning that most likely they're the original inhabitants of the land:

http://www.ancient.eu/sumer/

Why does it matter what their ethnicity is? Ethnicity is a modern concept that doesn't have much to do with reality anyway, and in ancient Mesopotamia people were separated by tribes, not by ethnicities, anyway.