Like the Sumarians
Where the first river valley flowed
And the Romans
With their emperors and their roads
Like the Egyptians
With their science and tech headstarts
Like the Greeks
And their philosophy and their art
Like the Aztecs
With their agriculture of course
Like the Byzantines
And their exceptional military force
Like the Kush
Where skillful archers were made
Like the steppes
For its routes of travel and trade
Like the Indus valley
For its systems of measures and weights
And their building tricks
Of a highly advanced sort of state
Like the Phoenicians time
And a thousand years at sea
Like the world a long, long time ago
You’re ancient history.
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