the Aztec
The Gupta Empire, early civilization in India.
The early civilization that used Sanskrit writing was the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Sanskrit, which is an ancient Indo-Aryan language, was used to write religious texts and literature in this civilization.
1) Taxation, and 2) military service.
Kievan Rus
Just about all of them. The Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Parthians, Macedonians, Romans, Egyptians all were military empires at one time.
the assyrian empire and yhe sumerian empire
The civilization of Mali started early in the 14th century. Initially, Mali was a province in the Ghana kingdom before it become an independent empire.
The earliest civilization in the Middle East were the Sumerians. They had a major empire in the Mesopotamian Crescent about 2500 BC.
The Sumer civilization started with Military leaders as rulers then priests took over who granted kings power. It was a rather remarkable civilization. The empire finally came to an end when it got attacked, and that was the rise and fall of the Sumer empire.
The Incas had the largest empire in early American civilizations.
The Inca Empire last from about 1438 to 1532. It reached its height about 1527. The civilization lasted from the early 13th century until it was conquered by the Spanish in 1572.
Carthage was terminated in 146 BCE. Axum was from early in the following millennium.