5 The World's Oldest Civilization

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1. Ancient China

The history of China is one of the oldest cultures in the world's history. From archaeological and anthropological discoveries, the area inhabited by the ancient human Cina since 1.7 million years ago. Chinese civilization originated from various city states along the Yellow River valley in the late Neolithic Age. The written history of China began in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1750 BC - 1045 BC). Tortoise shell with ancient Chinese writing from the Shang Dynasty have radiocarbon dating to 1500 BC. Culture, literature, and philosophy of China is growing at the time of the Zhou Dynasty (1045 BC to 256 BC) who continued the Shang Dynasty. This dynasty is the longest dynasty in power and in the time of this writing modern Chinese dynasties began to flourish.

2. Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization in northeastern Africa. At the end of the Paleolithic period, the climate of North Africa became increasingly hot and dry. As a result, residents in the area forced centered along the Nile. Previously, since human hunter-gatherers began living in the region in the late Middle Pleistocene (about 120 thousand years ago), the Nile has been the lifeblood of Egypt. Civilization is concentrated along the Nile river downstream. This civilization began with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3150 BC.

The achievements of Ancient Egyptian civilization among others: construction engineering monuments like the pyramids, temples, and obelisks; knowledge of mathematics; treatment techniques; irrigation systems and agriculture; The first ship ever known; technology translucent glaze pottery and glass; new art and architecture; Ancient Egyptian literature; and the first peace treaty ever known. Egypt has left a lasting legacy. Art and architecture widely imitated, and antiques made in this civilization was brought up to the end of the world. Monumental ruins became the inspiration for the rover and writers for centuries.

3. Meso America

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Mesoamerican region is characterized also as a development of some of America's first advanced cultures such as the Olmec (1200 BC), Teotihuacan, Maya, and Aztec. These cultures have developed complex societies, reached a high level of technological evolution, build monumental architecture, and deserve a lot of conditions and the concept of culture.

4. Ancient India

Here civilization began in 6000 BC. According to archaeologists today, in the ancient city of Mohenjodaro (Pakistan) found many human skeletons scattered, as many clues indicating their tremendous calamity stricken suddenly. In a city that is the story of the Ramayana epic battle sourced based manuscripts ditemukan.Pada frameworks there are remnants of highly radioactive. Similarly happened in the ancient city Kurusetra and Harappa, both cities were left the same impression as radioactive occur as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

5. Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is located between two major rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris. The area that is now the Republic of Iraq was in ancient times called Mesopotamia, which in Greek means "(regions) in between the rivers". Mesopotamia name already used by the ancient Greek and Latin authors, sepertiPolybius (2nd century BC) and Strabo (60 BC-20 AD). Mesopotamian history begins with the growth of a civilization, which is believed to be the center of the

oldest civilizations in the world, by the people of Sumer (it) around the year 7000 BC. The Sumerians build some famous ancient city, which is Ur, Ereck, Kish, etc. The presence of an imperialistic character of other nations who also inhabit Mesopotamia, Akkadian nation, led by Sargon the Great, turned out to conduct a political conquest, but not the cultural conquest. Even in the various cultures of Sumer and Akkad terms acculturated, so the era of leadership is often called Sumer-Akkad Vol. Sumer interference can not be dismissed, at the time of Akkad Gutti pressured by the nation, the nation of Sumer-Akkad was the one who supports, so that they can still be in power in the "land between two rivers" it.