In ancient times, some of the most prosperous civilizations, which were strong knowledge-based societies, included which of the following?

The ancient knowledge-rich civilisations named here are India, Egypt and Greece, each home to renowned centres of learning and inquiry.

India nurtured great seats of learning such as Takshashila and Nalanda that drew scholars from distant lands.

Egypt developed advanced mathematics, medicine and astronomy along the Nile thousands of years ago.

Greece was the cradle of philosophy, science and academies led by thinkers like Plato and Aristotle.

Japan and Germany rose to prominence as knowledge societies in far more recent times, not in antiquity.

These early civilisations show that organised knowledge and scholarship long predate the modern university.