The earliest recorded human civilization began thousands of years ago.

The earliest civilization in history is the ancient Egyptian civilization, which was formed about 6000 years ago (4000 years ago). The pre-ancient Egyptian dynasty began about 565,438+000 years ago (365,438+000 years ago), and menes unified upper and lower Egypt to establish the first dynasty, which ended in Rome's conquest of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt in 30 BC.

Since King Narmer unified Egypt, ancient Egypt has experienced the rule of 3 1 dynasty in seven periods: early dynasty, ancient kingdom, first middle period, middle kingdom, second middle period, new kingdom and late Egypt.

Among them, ancient Egypt reached its peak in the18th dynasty (before15th century). Upper Egypt in the southern Nile valley is now from Sudan to Ethiopia, while Lower Egypt in the northern delta region, except for part of Egypt and Libya, has its eastern border crossing the Sinai Peninsula to the Canaan Plain.

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Published by Green on 1968? In the First Civilization written by Daniel, three standards of civilization were put forward:

1. The first criterion is to have a city, that is, there must be a city in the excavated site. If they are all primitive small settlements, it is not enough. There should be cities, that is, there should be comparisons and differences between cities and villages. This standard is still limited. As a city, it should be able to accommodate more than 5000 people.

2. The second condition is writing. It is hard to imagine a civilization without words, because without the invention of words, the accumulation of human thoughts and culture cannot be preserved and spread.

3. The third condition is to have complex etiquette buildings. What is a complex etiquette building? Simply put, architecture is not built for ordinary life needs, but a complex building specially built for religious, political or economic reasons.

For example, the pyramids in ancient Egypt, anyone who visits, stands in front of the pyramids and faces the Sphinx will feel that this is a kind of civilization, which is no problem.

But it can't be said that it is primitive or in a state of ignorance and barbarism, because pyramids are graves. If it is only for general needs, there is no need to build such a big building anyway. It was built to respect the Pharaoh and make the Pharaoh's god live forever, which represents the class differentiation and rule in the civilized era.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Four Ancient Civilizations