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Darius I worked to change that. He expanded the empire further and, more importantly, consolidated royal power.

Perhaps most importantly, Renaissance thinkers proudly linked their own era to that of the Greeks and Romans, thus strengthening the concept of Western civilisation as an ongoing enterprise.

The Ptolemies ruled over Egypt. The Ptolemies were very powerful and, perhaps more importantly, had the benefit of ruling over a coherent and unified state that had ancient traditions of kingship.

There were certainly many other settlements in the Fertile Crescent, but because of their antiquity the remains of only a few - Jericho and Çatal Höyük most importantly - have survived to be studied by archaeologists.

Perhaps most importantly, what began as an obscure cult in Roman-ruled Judea eventually became one of the world's great religions - Christianity - through its successful spread throughout the Roman Empire before the collapse of the Western Empire.

Most importantly, Herodotus travelled and read sources that served as the basis for his conclusions. He did not simply sit in his hometown and theorise about things; he gathered an enormous amount of information about foreign lands and cultures and examined contemporary accounts of events.

Perhaps most importantly, Islamic kingdoms and empires were part of the networks of trade, scholarship and exchange that linked the entire Mediterranean region. Thus, despite the fervour of European crusaders, it would be deeply misleading to separate Islamic states and cultures from the rest of Western civilisation.