robomatic,, one might also add to the US history that it was founded on
two abominations, in how they dealt with the native peoples that lived there and the black slaves brought in from Africa..
Thomas Jefferson (whom I greatly admire) believed that all men were equal, they should all own land, they should all own slaves..

originally of course there werent 13 colonies but 16 colonies (the ones in Canada)

when the Egyptians boasted about their wars in inscriptions etc. its safe to guess that they didnt write about their losses, I believe that one of their -so called victories against the Hittites was actually the worlds first known peace treaty.

the period between 2000 and 1500 BC is also the first dark age.
its a time when Chariot riding pastoralists nomadic people armed with composite bows descended on most of mesopotamia, eg the Hyksos in Egypt, the Aryan invasion of the Indus valley civilization (Harrappa, Mohenjo Daro) of which quite possibly the caste system is a remnant.

these were not literate people, so we only have archaelogical, and linguistic evidence. Certainly the Egyptians didnt write of their defeats only when they started to get the upper hand against the Hyksos.