i always thought that the egyptian culture(civilization) is the oldest!!?

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but about this!!please tell me is that true!!http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq9myi_wM7P3BOQ7EW.0TFcGBgx.?qid=20060906020304AA5JRIv

hello egyptians!!tell me that's not right!!sites or hystorical prooves please!!if no egyptian stands for it!!I WILL HAVE TO BELIVE!!mooove!!

please add more details mr ancient!!prooves please!

thanks,thanks,thanks Sistablu, you r a lovely person!!and a future Egyptologist!!

Answer 1

Your way of thinking,(maybe intuitive) was right.
Egypt was the birthplace of civilization.
A civilized society is one that has moved from the hunter gatherer stage to founding settlements, or villages.Estabished themselves in one locality and begun farming crops and grazing stock for food.
The Austalian Aboriginals never reached that stage.
There were several contributing factors for the Egyptians being the first to reach this stage of developed society.
Egypt never suffered from the invasion of ice during the Ice Age.
While what was to later become the Babylonian plain did.
The Nile brought soil to Egypt from the southern tropics.
While the Euphrates relied on soil brought by rivers to the frozen north giving Egyptian hunter gatherers a decided advantage in developing the art of agriculture ahead of thier conterparts in the Tigris-Euphrates area.
Both settled first near to the mouth of their rivers. But the Egyptians were the first to make the step towards becoming a civilized people and society.While their neighbours remained hunter gatherers for some time.
One of the earliest Egyptian sites is that of Merimda Beni Salama,which is about 37 miles northeast of Cairo.
This site is one of Egypts most important Neolithic sites and was foundered at least 9.000 years ago.
It is offically dated at 7.300BC-3200BC.
Set on a high ground level the site covers more than 44 acres,which at its height of occupation supported around 5.000 people.
It is the first known farming settlement.
Set high enough to protect it from the Nile's annual flood and yet cradled by the Rosetta branch of the Nile,which has long dried up.
These Neolithic villagers grew thier crops in the fertile plain and grazed thier animals on the desert savanah.
They supplemented thier diet by hunting game and fishing.Evidence shows that they relied a lot on thier fishing.
Thier houses were made of mud brick and wickerwork and oval in shape.The remains of some houses remain. As do artifacts that show they had mastered pottery and weaving and several varieties of stone and ivory tools,such as awls,needles,fish hooks and hammer heads.
They had a defined practice of ritual burial with seperate cemeteries for men and the women and children. Burial rituals included internment in an oval pit grave with the body on its side, curved into a contracted position.
Their deity was a female goddess. Who may have been a very early form of Isis.
The site is very rich in artifacts, some imported from other areas of Egypt which indicates trade was established with other settlements.The site was discovered in the 1929 by Herman Junker and has recently been worked by Dr. Zahi Hawassi and his team, they have uncovered many of its secrets,but there is still much to be learnt.
But from what has been uncovered so far. We know they had established an ongoing fast growing culture and society. That was the begining of the Egyptian society that built the Pyramids and Sphinx.
thousands of years later.

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Answer 3

This has long been a subject of much debate and to this day, no one is absolutely sure which is the oldest civilization. This is mostly because people cannot agree on the definition of the word "civilization". The most common definition of civilization is “an advanced state of development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of writing, and complex political and social institutions.”

Answer 4

I've thought very hard on this subject. It seems that our great country always struggles with race issues, but if you study world art, you will find that there are many pictures of Jesus as different races. I have seen pictures of Jesus as an Asian, white, latino, african, etc. We all know that He was Jewish....However, what does it hurt if we personalize Jesus? I think it makes us feel closer to Him and I'm not sure if He minds. I always thought that it might be interesting if when we got to heaven that Jesus presented Himself to each of us as a race that we were most biased against. Now, that would be something!!!

Answer 5

The link is right..Egyptian civilization is one of the oldest may be, but Sumer in Iraq is the Earliest civilization known to mankind so far. Still, it's debated.

Answer 6

Not true, I'm afraid. Although it does beg the question "What IS civilisation? In Mesopotamia they were growing crops about 10000BC.

Jericho is supposed to have been founded about 9000BC.

There was a civilisation measuring the winter solstice to the exact day in Ireland prior to 3600BC (1000 years before the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid at Giza.)

Answer 7

The Babylonian culture of Iraq, pre-dates the egyptian one by about 6,000 years and before that, there was the Sumerian. The Sumerian culture pre-dates Egypt by about 12,000 years.

Answer 8

Wasn't it the Egyptians that told Adam and Eve that they could come live in their country when they got thrown out of Egypt? haha

Anyway Ramses the 2nd was pharaoh during Moses time and Ramses had other pharaohs before him even back to the time of Abraham and Joseph so how much farther can you possibly go back.

Answer 9

Egyptian civilization was the oldest and the 1st

EGYPTIAN people are not the 1st

you need to read more about Egyptology

Answer 10

There are some claims that the Australian Aborigines are the oldest culture, having a continuous history that's traceable some 40000 years or more.