There was a period of time in the evolution of human, isolation and living in small groups of families was a way of life; then came the idea of people out of family circle co-existing in larger groups with a generally acceptable ideology which made group dependency became a more appreciable way of living. This was the birth of societies which Metamorphed into a civil lifestyle, it is still a major topic of studies and discussion between anthropologists and History scholars how the human race arrived at this psychology and thinking that brought changes to our way of life.
Remember Altantis? Lemuna, Rama, Wakanda myths? These civilizations might be based on fantasies and legends, but in this post; the real and factual civilizations would be discussed. The truth is that, present dsay civilizations originated from millions of years old civilizations that was recorded in the history of mankind starting from the oldest, here are some of the selected top ten oldest civilization to ever existed.
1. THE MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION 3500BC - 500BC
This existed between 3500 BC to 500BC, originally located in the Northeast by the Zagros Mountains and Arabian Plateau by the Southeast with its current location between Turkey, Iran, and Syria. The name is Ancient Greet meaning Land between Rivers and it was highlighted as the first civilization on the human planet since the human evolution. Though the idea of Agriculture came around 8000BC and domestication of animals for food and farm work, same as Art. But these are part of human culture and survival instinct and not civilization like the Mesopotamians. Aside from that, there was no evidence of earlier civilization before the Mesopotamian Era.
2. INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION 2000BC - 1900BC
As early as the Mesopotamian Civilization was the Indus Valley Civilization which occurs between 2600BC to 1900BC Era which was originally located around the Indus River Basin. The Present location is Northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and Northwest India. It is popular because of it's most widely spread civilization which covers 1.25KM, considered as one of the three earliest old World civilization, also named after the excavation sites where they were found; "Harappan and Mohenjo-Daro Civilization". Rich in arts and crafts with great accuracy in mass, time and length measurement, was part of the distinctive features of the Indus people based on the technologically advanced and sophisticated culture found in the remains.
3. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CIVLIZATION 3100 BC - 2686BC
The Civilization of this Era was characterised by the construction of Pyramids in 3100BC to 2686BC. The Bank of the Nile River was the original location but now in the present day Egypt and this civilization is considered to be one of the oldest and culturally rich civilizations ever recorded. The Pharaohs, The Sphinx were part of the spectacular characteristics combined with the Prodigions cultures of the then Egyptians. From conventional Egyptian Artifacts, the first Pharaoh unified lower and upper Egypt out of the history of this acient and stable kingdom which has its periods of relatively unstable tenures in between. Pharaoh like Rameses the Great Ruled with absolute power that made other civilizations e.g Nubian Civilization subjects under it. Solar Calendars, Hieroglyphics, Mummies that preserves ancient Pharaohs to the present day were major discoveries from this Old World in the present day.
4. THE MAYAN CIVILIZATION 2600BC - 900AD
Originally located around present-day Yucatan, now in current locations; Yucatan, campeche, Tabasco Quintana Roo, Houndras, Belize, El Salvador and Guatemala. Complex astronomy understanding was the major highlight of this Era that flourished in Central America from 2600BC to 900AD. With a booming population of about 19 Million, the Mayans already devised their way of writing and they used to create solar calendars carved in stones. According to Mayan believe, the World was created in 3114BC August and was supposed to expire by 2012 December 21st. The collapse of such an advanced civilization with such a population in the 8th to 9th Centuries remains a mystery, they built larger Pyramids than the Egyptians just like the Aztecs; showing how culturally richer compared to contemporary civilizations. Luckily, there are few surviving Mayan Descendants dispersed all over central America.
5. THE CHINESE CIVILIZATION 1600BCE - 1046BCE
This civilization that took place between 1600BCE to 1046BCE was characterized by the invention of Silk and Paper. Originally located in the Yellow River and Yangtze Region but currently located in the country of China, and it is also popularly referred to as the "Han China". They gave the world very useful inventions like the Cannon, Paper, Gun Powder, Silk, Compass, alcohol etc. The Yellow River was where the entire Chinese civilization peaked because it was the base of the earliest Chinese Dynasties. These Chinese Dynasties is another Historical Topic on its own that would be Published, later on, the end of the Qing dynasty in the year 1912AD ended over four Millenium ancient Chinese history of civilization with the Xunhai revolution. These are the first five as discussed briefly in the first installment, in the second installment; the remaining selected five of the top 10 Oldest Civilization would be concluded, thanks and watch out.
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wow how cool is this also your article? https://www.ancienthistorylists.com/ancient-civilizations/10-oldest-ancient-civilizations-ever-existed/
Fantastic, this one of my references; see below my blog.
Our world have being moving from one civilization to the other. Part 2...
LOL, watch out for part two on Saturday mate.
Nice write up. I enjoyed it
Where are the Sumerians?
"the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia"
Which a pretty amazing history (carved into stone) which describes alien masters and the origin of man.
Am guessing they will be in part 2?
Sumerians are classified as Mesopotamia Civilization, to categorize each sub civilization would make the summarised selected 10 Oldest civilization too cumbersome.
Excellent! Understood now ;)
Good Begining!
Very nice post, liked the way you organized it, somehow it arired my curiosity on the civilizations. I am gonna follow you to see how this goes =).