TheLastOne36
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Who would you prefer over Holy Roman Empire?
Hittites were the first to forge Iron weapons and in their age were really a powerful civ.
If they are not in BtS they will be the only MUST BE IN civ which hasn't made an appearance.
then take Sumeria out.
Sumer was the FIRST civilization. They contributed more to advance the cause of civilization than any other, except perhaps the Greeks. I offer the following for consideration (from Wikipedia admittedly, but these statements are easily verified):
"Examples of Sumerian technology include: the wheel, cuneiform, arithmetic and geometry, irrigation systems, sumerian boats, lunisolar calendar, bronze, leather, saws, chisels, hammers, braces, bits, nails, pins, rings, hoes, axes, knives, lancepoints, arrowheads, swords, glue, daggers, waterskins, bags, harnesses, armor, quivers, scabbards, boots, sandal (footwear), harpoons, and beer."
"Sumerians invented picture-hieroglyphs that developed into later cuneiform, and their language vies with Ancient Egyptian for credit as the oldest known written human language."
"Most authorities credit the Sumerians with the invention of the wheel, initially in the form of the potter's wheel. The new concept quickly led to wheeled vehicles and mill wheels. The Sumerians' cuneiform writing system is the oldest there is evidence of (with the possible exception of the highly controversial Old European Script), pre-dating Egyptian hieroglyphics by at least seventy-five years. The Sumerians were among the first astronomers, mapping the stars into sets of constellations, many of which constellations survived in the zodiac and in the constellations known to the ancient Greeks."
"They invented and developed arithmetic using several different number systems including a Mixed radix system with an alternating base 10 and base 6. This sexagesimal system became the standard number system in Sumer and Babylonia. Using this sexagesimal system they invented the clock with its 60 seconds, 60 minutes, and 12 hours, and the 12 month calendar which is still in use. They may have invented military formations and introduced the basic divisions between infantry, cavalry and archers. They developed the first known codified legal and administrative systems, complete with courts, jails, and government records. The first true city states arose in Sumer, roughly contemporaneously with similar entities in what is now Syria and Israel."
"Finally, the Sumerians ushered in the age of intensive agriculture and irrigation."
In other words, Sumer "deserves" to be in more than any other civ. If anything, Babylon should be taken out and Sumer left in! But I prefer both, as they're sufficiently distinguishable and both left indelible marks on history.