Once upon a time, rivers flowed in the desert.
Before the Sumerians built the city of Ur, before the first pharaohs governed Egypt, there were the rulers of Pento. The Asanad dynasty: the first in human history to style themselves "emperors," meaning kings who ruled over other kings.
(The other kings were less than delighted by this innovation.)
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