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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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Some contenders from Thoughtco.com

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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Female equivalent of The Persian Empire could be interesting -

Some Islamic scholars argue that widespread subjugation of women  in Islamic cultures only happened after the Persian empire waned and in response to colonialism - The Persian men felt degraded and emasculated by British and French colonial rulers and responded by tightening controls on their women (isolating them from public spaces and requiring they cover their heads and eventually everything apart from eyes when in public).

This was not done during the
Prophet’s lifetime. The ability to have four wives was actually a constraint rather than encouraging polygyny - during tribal warfares in the region, men would often capture many women and children as spoils of war and not provide basic necessities. So specifying four wives allowed and then only if they could be properly provided for was a constraint.

Anyway, could be particularly fun to explore ancient civilization gender relations when their modern descendants are assumed to be heavily misogynistic. [/quote]

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