What are some good books regarding the ancient civilizations

>>8510479
>>8510332
When did white people start claiming Egypt ernestly?

>>8510495
Hows that?

>>8510495
Never. Stormfront and Afrocentrists started fighting over it when scientists speculated on the race of the people in ancient Egypt. We of course know now that there were different races, and colors in eygpt. Not west Africans, and sure as hell not Englishmen

>>8510332
>western history
>Egypt

>>8510567
whatever yid

>>8510610
Funnily enough, if you think about it for a second, Hebrews are obviously more closely related to the ancient Egyptians (before the invasion of the Sea Peoples) than any other existing ethnic group today.

>>8510479
Welp there we go. Thanks a bunch

>>8510495
if you don't understand the development of "first world culture" as beginning in Egypt, spreading throughout the Mediterranean, settling in Western Europe, and finall making its way to North America, you're a lost cause.

There are other cultural traditions, some even begin in the Fertile Crescent in Egypt as well, but it's painfully obvious that as Westerners We Wuz Egyptians n Sheeit

>>8510660
You're taking a modern abstraction developed during the Cold War period to describe developmental differences between modern nation-states, and applying it retrospectively to a civilisation that thought the king wanking into a river was good for crop growth.

Basically, you're a saft numpty and you don't know shit.

>>8510660
>beginning in Egypt
Try western saharan nomads coming east way after levantine nomads moved east into the Euphrates plain, and started trading with steppe horseman from the north.

"first world culture" was at catal huyuk and jericho while the people of egypt were still farming 1000 miles west of the nile delta. Newest dig at Catal Huyuk suggest a timeline from 12,000 BC

>>8511434
fair, my post was an oversimplification. im just trying to get across the point that western civ "claiming" egypt in some way makes more sense than we wuz kangs.

>>8511351
well aren't you an affable fellow.

War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin

https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Rise-Fall-Empires/dp/0452288193

Less "these are the things that happened" and more "this is why these things happened." Provides a really robust framework for understanding how civilizations interact with the frontier.

IMO his model explains Chinese history very well. A lot of dynasties emerged from frontier populations.