What are the conditions of civilization? For example, the four ancient civilizations

The similarities of the four ancient civilizations are that they all have great river basins, they all invent their own writing, they all focus on agriculture, they all have self-sufficient natural economies, they all have relatively complete social hierarchies, they all have theocratic beliefs, and they all enter the feudal society from slavery. The four great civilizations were ancient Babylon, ancient Egypt, ancient India, and China.

The four ancient civilizations have a lot in common, they are all near 30 degrees north latitude, the climate here is good, there are large plains and rivers, which are more suitable for large-scale production. The Nile, Yellow River, Yangtze River basins, and the Indus and Ganges basins produced the world's five major civilizations.

At the same time, the four ancient civilizations from 6,000 to 3,700 years ago successively entered the Bronze Age from the Neolithic Age, and then entered the Iron Age. The social system of the four ancient civilizations mostly adopted slavery, and the state power was born relatively late; The four ancient civilizations all had their own calendars and created their own scripts.

The measure of the four ancient civilizations

In the book "The First Civilization", three standards of civilization are proposed, the first criterion is to have cities, primitive small settlements are not enough, there must be a contrast and difference between the city and the countryside; The second criterion is writing, without which it is difficult for human ideology and culture to survive and disseminate; The third criterion is to have a complex ceremonial architecture.

The "Four Ancient Civilizations" refers to China, ancient India, ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon, the birthplaces of ancient civilizations. This term was first used by Mr. Liang Qichao in 1900 in "The Twentieth Century Pacific Song Like a Defeat". Liang Qichao's statement was recognized as the "birthplace of the four major civilizations" by the world academic community at that time

Introduction and contribution of the four major civilizations and ancient countries.

Ancient Civilization, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Babylon, Ancient India, Birthplace of Ancient China, Nile River Basin, Two River Basins, Indus River, Ganges River Basin, Yangtze River Basin, Yellow River Basin.

Civilization arises. Time: c. 3500 B.C.E., c. 3500 B.C.E., 2500 B.C.E., about 2070 B.C.E.

Script: Hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, Sanskrit, Oracle.

Calendar: solar calendar, lunar calendar, weekly calendar, summer calendar.

Architecture Pyramids, Sphinxes, Hanging Gardens, Great Wall Ancient Egyptian Mathematics: Calculate the area of isosceles triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, and circles; Calculate the ancient Babylonian mathematics of pi: 60 round.

Ancient Indian Mathematics: Invention of Arabic numerals and universal notation.

Ancient Chinese Mathematics: Zu Chong's Pi Pythagorean Theorem Decimal System.

The four great civilizations do not include ancient Greece.

Four Ancient Civilizations is a collective term for the four ancient civilizations of the world. Ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon, ancient India, and China actually correspond to the birthplace of the world's four major civilizations, namely the Nile River Basin, the Two River Basin, the Indus River Basin, and the Yellow River Basin, which were the first four large human civilizations to be born, and the later Aegean civilization was not included. The Chinese of the four ancient civilizations has not been interrupted, and only the source of the four ancient civilizations has been passed down.

Internationally recognized. The History of World Civilization (Qiaochang, William McGohee, USA) states that "Babylon, Egypt, India, Greece, and China are the five major civilizations that have ever existed in the world."

The General History of the World (Stavrianos, USA) states: "The fertile river basins and plains of the Middle East, India, China, and Europe have given birth to the greatest civilizations in history." These civilizations have made Eurasia a major region of world history.

More specifically, the center of civilization in the Middle East includes the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates river basins and the Iranian plateau; The center of Chinese civilization is the Yellow River Valley; The centre of European civilization was on the northern shores of the Mediterranean, a region that had a clear economic and cultural advantage from the Minoan period to the end of the Middle Ages. It should be noted that Europe here includes North Africa. In Stavrianos's view, the civilization of the Middle East includes the civilization of the Nile and the civilization of the two rivers.

Japan's NHK TV's large-scale documentary "The Four Great Civilizations of the World" also believes that ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China are the four ancient civilizations in the world.

In the BBC's large-scale documentary "The Story of China", the Nile, Euphrates, Indus and Yellow rivers are called the four ancient civilizations in the world.