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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I loved your question but don’t find many of the responses are really equivalent to thinking about the Roman Empire (except for a few such as ancient Mayans/ Ancient Greece).

Maybe it could help to ask

What would be the funniest female equivelant to men pondering the Roman Empire daily?

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Persian Empire

At its height about 500 BC, the Achaemenid dynasty rulers of the Persian empire had conquered Asia as far as the Indus River, Greece, and North Africa including what is now Egypt and Libya.

Among the longest-lasting empires, the Persians were finally conquered in the 4th century BC by Alexander the Great, but Persian dynasties remained a coherent empire up into the 6th century AD, and Iran was called Persia until the 20th century

Vikings 
Although most people have heard about the Vikings, what they mostly hear about is their violent, raiding nature and silver hoards found all over their territories. But in fact, the Vikings were successful at colonization, placing their people and building settlements and networks from Russia to the North American coastline.

The Olmec
The Olmec civilization is the name given to a sophisticated Central American culture dated between 1200 and 400 BC. Its baby-faced statues have led to some fairly baseless speculation about prehistoric international sailing connections between what is now Africa and Central America, but the Olmec were incredibly influential, spreading domestic and monumental architecture and a suite of domestic plants and animals into North America.
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More contenders from Live Science:

The Silla

The Silla Kingdom was one of the longest-standing royal dynasties ever. It ruled most of the Korean Peninsula between 57 B.C. and  A.D. 935

Silla was founded by the monarch Bak Hyeokgeose. Legend held that he was hatched from a mysterious egg in the forest and married a queen born from the ribs of a dragon. Over time, the Silla culture developed into a centralized, hierarchical society with a wealthy aristocratic class. archaeologists have unearthed luxurious goods made by the Sila such as a gold-and-garnet dagger to a cast-iron Buddha to jade jewelry.

The Indus

The Indus is the largest-known ancient urban culture, with the people's land stretching from the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan to the Arabian Sea and the Ganges in India. The Indus civilization persisted for thousands of years, emerging around 3300 B.C. and declining by about 1600 B.C.

The Indus, also known as the Harappans, developed sewage and drainage systems for their cities, built impressive walls and granaries, and produced artifacts like pottery and glazed beads. They even had dental care: Scientists found 11 drilled molars from adults who lived between 7,500 to 9,000 years ago in the Indus Valley, according to a study published in 2006 in the journal Nature.

Evidence suggests that climatic change weakened monsoonal rains and dried up much of the Harappan territory, forcing the civilization to gradually disband and migrate to wetter climes.

The Nok

The mysterious and little-known Nok culture lasted from around 1000 B.C. to A.D. 300 in what is today northern Nigeria. Evidence of the Nok was discovered by chance during a tin-mining operation in 1943, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Miners uncovered a terra-cotta head, hinting at a rich sculptural tradition. Since then, other elaborate terra-cotta sculptures have emerged, including depictions of people wearing elaborate jewelry and carrying batons and flails — symbols of authority also seen in ancient Egyptian art, Other sculptures show people with diseases such as elephantiasis.[/quote]

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