Great civilizations such as Egypt, Greece, Carthage and Rome have been covered exhaustively in the 54mm and 60mm plastic toy soldier universe by such makers as Atlantic, Hat, Forces of Valor, Jecsan and Marx. For metal toy soldiers, one can find examples by Alymer, Tradition and Imrie Miniatures. In HO or 1/72nd scale plastic the makers Hat, Atlantic, Caesar, Zvezda and Orion offer the widest choices, even including other notable empires, such as Alexander’s Macedonian Empire, Assyria, Persia, the Hittites, ancient China and India. For our purposes, we date 'the Ancient World' as the era which lasted from the origins of cities and organized societies until the city of Rome fell to the Germanic tribe, the Goths (approximately 3000 BCE - 476 CE).