Ancient Egypt
Arguably the beginning of Humanity's advanced development, the Egypt of the Pharaohs offered much to the world that was to come. From the Scorpion King to Cleopatra VII Philopator, the realm of the Nile and her fabled rulers gave the sciences, philosophy, religion, architecture, poetry, magic and politics of a high calibre to posterity through their hieroglyphical and papyriic records while simultaneously building a united nation that flourished for an astounding 5,000 years, from the initial joining of the hither-to separate kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt under the chieftains of the Double Crown to the epic fall of the Pharaonic people to the soon to be imperial might of Octavian's Rome.
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