The world recognizes the four ancient plain texts: ancient Egyptian civilization, Babylonian civilization, ancient Indian civilization, and Chinese civilization. Many people like to talk about the four ancient countries with plain texts. In fact, the four civilizations are not suitable for adding the word "country". Because these four major civilizations are divided by regions, they do not refer to simple countries. For example, China did not exist in the form of a state before Xia and Shang.
Ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Ancient India have all disappeared in the long river of history. Only China's five thousand years of culture has stretched to this day and passed down intact. Chinese civilization has also brought the world's most beautiful cultural soul treasure.
First, let’s analyze the same seven continents (seven continents). Why are there only four major civilizations? How did civilizations come about? The occurrence of civilization requires innate external conditions. Ancient Egypt was the first civilization in ancient times, which occurred in 5000 BC.
Why is the ancient Egyptian region the first? It depends on the origin of mankind, the ancestors of mankind. Human beings evolved from the ancient apes. However, modern genetic studies have proved that the genes of all people on the earth now originate from the same ancestor, the modern Homo sapiens living in central and eastern Africa. Modern Homo sapiens began to migrate around the world about 100,000 years ago, and only migrated to China about 50,000 years ago. The early Homo erectus were either eliminated naturally, or could not survive the extinction during the Ice Age, and the last group was eliminated by modern Homo sapiens. For example, China has Yuanmou people and Beijing cavemen, but the Chinese people did not directly evolve from these ancient apes.
Human ancestors migrated from central and eastern Africa to all parts of the world, while Egypt was in northern Africa, where the migration of modern Homo sapiens took the lead. Therefore, the first ancient civilization of ancient Egypt occurred, then Babylon, then ancient India, and finally is China. And ancient Egypt can produce civilization, because Egypt has Nile River Basin . It is precisely because of the Nile River that the ancient Egyptian civilization was cultivated.
Why did the four ancient civilizations all occur near rivers? It is because human beings have gradually shifted from primitive hunting and survival methods to farming lifestyles, and the population growth has bred civilization. In the early stage of agricultural development, only hands and some simple natural tools could be used for farming, so the initial period of human civilization is called the Stone Age. Large-scale cultivation of dense forests with stone tools and hands is simply impossible, so humans can only rely on primitive innate geographical conditions to cultivate.
The migration of modern Homo sapiens first arrived in Europe and then reached the Babylonian region of the Mesopotamia. However, Europe did not give birth to ancient civilizations because Europe has no inherent geographical conditions. Ancient Babylonian civilization took place in the Mesopotamia, ancient Indian civilization took place in the Ganges River basin, and ancient Chinese civilization took place in the Yellow River basin . So the Yellow River is the mother river of China. The upper reaches of the Yellow River is the Loess Plateau. Rainwater washes and carries a large amount of sediment into the Yellow River. The Yellow River reached the Central Plains because of its flat terrain, slow water flow, and a large amount of sedimentation. The world has washed out a Central Plains in just a few thousand years. Therefore, Chinese ancestors used this innate land to give birth to Chinese civilization.
Why did the ancient Indian civilization say that it was plagiarized? First, because modern scientific research discovered that there are no primitive grasses in India. The gramineous plants in India were all introduced from the Babylonian region of the Mesopotamia. Simply put, the planting and cultivation techniques of ancient India were copied from the ancient Babylonian civilization and were not cultivated by him. Civilization occurs as a result of the natural formation of human beings as the amount of knowledge increases. The most primitive process of planting includes selection and cultivation, and then large-scale farming. The selection and cultivation is the most critical link in gestating civilization, which was not in ancient India.
Looking at ancient Indian thoughts, they are deeply influenced by ancient Greek thoughts. We can feel through Buddhism and Hinduism that many philosophical thoughts in them are deeply influenced by ancient Greek philosophical thoughts. In addition, ancient India suffered several foreign invasions and was eventually replaced by Aryans . Therefore, most of the current India is of this race. The caste system in India is also derived from this, based on blood relationship, the various ethnic groups are classified.
In the ancient Indian civilization, the farming methods were copied from others, and the ideas were also learned from others. Among the four civilizations, only the ancient Indian civilization did not have its own independent language system. Ancient Egypt has hieroglyphs, Babylon has cuneiform, ChineseThe Chinese civilization has Oracle, but ancient India did not. Even the primitive inhabitants of India have been replaced by foreigners, so it is hard to say that the ancient Indian civilization was an independent civilization.
In fact, the ancient world is not only four major civilizations, there are ancient Greek civilization, ancient Mayan civilization and so on. Why didn’t the ancient Greek civilization and the Mayan civilization be classified into the “five civilizations” or the “six civilizations”? First, analyze the ancient Greek civilization. Ancient Greece is located on the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The land is barren and sparsely populated. Ancient Greece is not a unified country. They all appeared as small cities. They cannot grow food on a large scale and can only rely on some prey fur. Or exquisite products go to Egypt and Babylon in exchange for food, so ancient Greece has been very popular in industry and commerce since ancient times, and therefore ancient Greece has always been sparsely populated.
Let's analyze the Maya civilization again. The Maya civilization is considered by modern people to be the most mysterious. The mystery is because there are too many unknowns. For example, the Maya predicted the end of the world in 2012, and the United States used this to make a movie, which was known to the world. The Mayan civilization was born in the 10th century BC, and declined in the late 8th century. When Spanish and Dutch colonists arrived in the American continent, they wiped out the successors of the Mayan civilization and found a large number of ruins of various buildings of the Mayan civilization. It wasn't until 1956 that the United States had gone through decades of archaeological excavations before systematically sorting out the full picture of Mayan civilization. The Mayan civilization is a very mature civilization system, with large-scale cities, independent language systems, custom cultures, and so on.
The "four major civilizations" appeared as early as the Liang Qichao period in the late Qing Dynasty, and have been passed down since then, and all modern people have always talked about the ancient four civilizations. The Mayan civilization is known to the world that it is too late, and the four major civilizations have already taken shape, so the Mayan civilization has not been classified into the "five major civilizations" so far!
If you really want to talk about the four ancient civilizations, you should eliminate the ancient Indian civilization and join the Maya civilization. This is the complete four ancient civilizations!
