20. Persia - An Empire in Ashes
These accounts he compiled into nine books, he called histori, which in ancient Greek meant researchers or inquiries but is the origin of our word history.
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17. Carthage - Empire Of The Phoenicians
As the Greek historian Herodotus recounts, These Phoenicians, who came with Cadmus, brought with them to Greece, among many other kinds of learning, the alphabet.