Jabrosky
Banned
I've been revising my novel's conworld substantially (see here for a new map), and it now features a number of Counterpart Cultures. Among these is a civilization analogous to ancient Egypt, but with at least one major twist: the environment is tropical savanna rather than desert. The civilization is still centered along a river and farms on its floodplains, but they get rain every summer in addition to the annual flood. What I wonder is whether a civilization recognizably similar to ancient Egypt, or at least one with its monumental scale, could develop in a tropical savanna ecosystem. How much would the environment affect a culture's evolution?