Egypt

Fully five thousand years ago Egyptians were building cities, roads, cultivating the earth in broad fields; they put armies in the field; created organized religion, commerce and society. All this before the first dynasty was founded in 3150 BC by the Pharoah Menes, it lasted, with all the ups and downs such peoples suffer for 30 dynasties, almost 3000 years.

Not only all that, but they made bad ass worlds to boot!