I think it was hunkapapa (spelling?) but it may have been aztecs...
Babylon
First Susa, then Persepolis.
Athens
There were hundreds. The capital was first Susa, then Persepolis.
Mecca
The city that was once the center of the Mali empire and became the center of the Songhai empire was Gao
Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, is Islam's most sacred city.
The Prophet (PBUH) went to Madina when the makkans were attempting to kill him, Madina was the first area to accept Islam fully.
rome, italy
Constantinople
Aztecs. Tenochtiltan was the capital city of the Aztec Empire. The Spanish Empire replaced it, and Tenochtiltan became Mexico City.
The city of babylon makes its first appearance in our sources after the fall of the Empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur, which had ruled the city states of the alluvial plain between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris
Rome is the city that became the capitol of the Roman empire. For a while it was moved to Ravinia and then, when the west fell, the capitol became Constantinople.
It acquired an empire and became rich, but also became overconfident, entered into wars, was defeated and lost its empire and became a second rate power.
rome become the 2nd most important city when the empire split under Constantine in 330 AD and constantinople became the capital of the more powerful eastern empire
Thessaloniki was the first capital of the Byzantine Empire (for about 10 years) and then became the second-largest city in the Byzantine and Ottoman empires. It is now the largest city in geographical Macedonia and the second-largest city in Greece.