Lesser known ancient civilizations

>>1641053
I don't know if you can call them a civilization, but the Natufians were pretty cool.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natufian_culture

Ancient Africa had some often-overlooked civilizations, but you can't say that on /his/ or you get the wewuz kangs meme.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum#

>>1641053
There's those few centuries when remnants of Alexander's army ruled Afghanistan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom

I wish we knew more about them.

>>1641082
Speaking of Africa, Nubia is legitimately overlooked despite being very advanced, developed and constantly fucking with the upper kingdom

>>1641053
>They used an elaborate underground irrigation system, and founded prosperous Berber kingdoms or city-states in the Fezzan area of Libya, in the Sahara desert

>city-states in the Sahara desert

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamantes

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>heard of all these

Sami.

Fucking Scandinavians stealing all our culture and oppressing us.

Funan Civilization, the reason we know they exist are Chinese records. Other than that we can only guess their race, ethnicity, language etc

>>1641264
We wuz the real Scandinavians n' shiiiet!

>>1641053
The Mauryans BTFO'd the Seleucids right? And also (mostly)united the subcontinent? They don't seem that unknown, though they're definitely not taught in any non-honors American history class.

The chachapoyans Aka cloud people

>>1641053

Mali Empire, kingdom of Kush and Aksum, Sami, and the Mamluks

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Marajoara and Santarem

>>1641455
Mauryans are pretty mainstream in Azn History edumacation.

>>1641264
fucking wildlings

>>1641093
Nah it can't be that obscure I remember being taught it in school

>>1641264
Don't you have any reindeers to mysteriously kill?

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>>1641264
literally northern injuns

>>1641053
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuragic_civilization#Pre-Nuragic_Sardinia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush

>>1641964
Swedes tried to genocide us until the 1970s.

Norway was just content to wipe out our culture.