Mesopotamia (now Iraq) had the earliest civilization on record, the cradle of civilization. Then followed by Sumeria and Assyria (now various middle eastern countries), then Persia (now Iran), then Egypt, then Ethiopia then Greece, then India, then China, then Rome. Those collectively defined what was ancient civilization. All those ancient races had been extinct except for Jews and Chinese maintaining clearly traceable and distinguishable ethnic lineage from thousands of years ago. The Egyptians today are Arabs, not the same as ancient Egyptians. If China was started with migrants from Africa, there're more likely to be from ancient Egyptian tribes. Ancient Egypt and China shared many things in common. Pictographic writing systems - Egyptian hierogyphics and Chinese characters; practically all other countries used phoenetic writing systems. Few fully bearded except goateed, as can be seen in ancient paintings. Grandiose stone buildings, the pyramids (mausoleums) and the Great Wall and other Chinese mausoleums for kings and emperors, who claimed to represent heaven and god on earth.
