1, Two Rivers Civilization
The civilization of the two rivers basin is also called Mesopotamian culture, or the two rivers civilization. Refers to the civilization developed in the fertile crescent basin of the two rivers (Mesopotamia Plain between Tigris River and Euphrates River), which is the earliest civilization in West Asia. Mainly composed of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria and other civilizations.
The two river basins are the regions with the earliest cultural development in the world. It invented the first script for the world-cuneiform, built the first city in the world, compiled the first law, invented the first pottery wheel for making pottery, formulated the first seven-day cycle, and expounded the myth of creating the world and the great flood for the first time.
2. Ancient Babylonian civilization
Ancient Babylonian civilization is located in today's Iraq. Ancient Babylon, China, ancient Egypt and ancient India are called "four ancient civilizations".
The Tigris River and the Euphrates River, which flow through Iraq, gave birth to the world-famous civilization of the two rivers and the dazzling civilization of Babylon. The ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the ruins of Babylon's "Hanging Garden" are listed as world wonders.
3. China civilization
Chinese civilization: also known as Chinese civilization. It is one of the oldest civilizations in the world and the longest-lasting civilization in the world. It is generally believed that Chinese civilization has three direct sources, namely, the Yellow River civilization, the Yangtze River civilization and the northern grassland civilization. Chinese civilization is the brilliant achievement of the exchange, integration and sublimation of the three regional civilizations.
4. Indian civilization
Indian civilization originated from the civilization of the South Asian subcontinent. Because the Indus Valley is one of the cradles of ancient human civilization, it is named.
At present, the major ancient cities found are concentrated in caliban Gan in Rajasthan (probably the oldest urban site found in India), Harappa in Punjab and Mohenjo-Daro in the lower reaches of the Indus River. There are nearly 200 sites of smaller towns or villages in the same era in the three places, scattered in a vast area from the Indus Valley to the upper reaches of the Ganges River and then to Mumbai in the south. They showed similar residential areas, pottery, seals (used to show property ownership) and works of art.
5. Ancient Egyptian civilization
Ancient Egyptian civilization refers to the period from the first waterfall of the Nile to the delta, from the Tassa culture in 5000 BC to the Arab conquest of Egypt in 64 1 AD. Experts actually explored the time range of ancient Egyptian culture, which was the first unification of the northern and southern kingdoms of Egypt in 3 100 BC. By 30 BC, the Roman Empire Octavian captured Egypt, Cleopatra VII committed suicide, the Ptolemaic Dynasty fell, and Egypt was incorporated into the Roman Empire.
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