which one is the oldest civiliazation,?

Answer 1

This is a difficult one because historians and archaeologists differ in what they accept as the definition of civilization and of course there is an element of competitiveness which surrounds this.
What is known is that the first farming settlements were known to have existed in the Middle East from around 8000 B.C.and the beginnings of the Mesopotamian (most widely agreed to be the
first )civilization were in existence then too
From then we have India (7000 B.C) and China (6500).
But the picture could change at any time with a new discovery.Its thought that India could have older evidence existing under the sea and even Antarctica is said to be set to provide some surprises of its own.
Hi Tech instrumentation could help us discover and define more evidence in the years to come.
Who knows? it could be America that is the oldest one day !

Answer 2

It's quite a hard thing to define, as there are many, and history often gets lost in the sands of time...but some of the oldest are most definately Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Sumerian and Mesopotamian. Those kinds of things.

Answer 3

The Oldest were four different civilizations.
Mesopotamia in the Middle East
Indian- India
China
Maya- Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico

Answer 4

What is a civilization? Is it a bunch of human beings living in a perfect harmony? Is it massive architecture? Is it a bunch of human beings who were able to communicate efficiently (verbal or written?)? Is it the technology gap?

We know fire was discovered by human beings, but don't know when and where. We know that there are a plenty of so called oldest civilizations around the world, but we don't know their origin. We know that there a hell lot of languages claiming that they are the oldest, but we still don't know their origins. That's a real mystery.

Follow the links. Judge for yourself. I bet they would help..

:-)

Answer 5

It is not possible to say which is the oldest civilisation:

But you can read this which I extracted from Wikipedia:

The earliest known civilisations (as defined in the traditional sense) developed from proto-civilised cultures in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq, the Nile valley of Egypt, while smaller civilisations arose in Elam in modern-day Iran, (Especially those parts considered to be the "Fertile Crescent"), the Indus Valley region of modern-day Pakistan and North India, and the parallel development of Chinese civilisations in the Huang He River (Yellow River) and Yangtze River valleys of China, and on the island of Crete and in Mycenaean Greece in the Aegean Sea, Persia in modern-day Iran, as well as the Olmec civilisation and the Caral civilisation in modern day Mexico and Peru.

Answer 6

Trust me, it's our Indus-Sarasvati civilisation. Officially it is the Mid-East civilisations because from a Eurocentric point of view, the Biblical story has to be upheld, that Adam and Eve came first somewhere in Babylon or Mideast. Excavations at Dwarka proving link of Vedic India to Mohenjo Daro and Harrappa prove beyond doubt that Vedic civilisation is the oldest. No other ancient civilisation can boast of a literature as advanced as or even merely as long as the Vedas and our other scriptures.

Answer 7

Mesopotamian archaeology proves that it is an oldest civilisation in the world.
Story on baked clay tablets about the massive water Storm is also found in Indian Vedas,The bible and Islamic literature.

Answer 8

The earliest known civilizations (as defined in the traditional sense) developed from proto-civilized cultures in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq, the Nile valley of Egypt, while smaller civilizations arose in Elam in modern-day Iran, (Especially those parts considered to be the "Fertile Crescent"), the Indus Valley region of modern-day Pakistan and North India, and the parallel development of Chinese civilizations in the Huang He River (Yellow River) and Yangtze River valleys of China, and on the island of Crete and in Mycenaean Greece in the Aegean Sea, Persia in modern-day Iran, as well as the Olmec civilization and the Caral civilization in modern day Mexico and Peru. The inhabitants of these areas built cities, created writing systems, learned to make pottery and use metals, domesticated animals, and created complex social structures with class systems.

Answer 9

The "Bushmen" of the Kalahari(sp?), if your talking about civilizations that still exist. Otherwise its hard to say, it depends on where you draw the line of "civilization". For example you could consider a large group of primates to be a civilization. Which suggest that there could have been civilizations before human existence.

Answer 10

the first complex civilization was the Olmecs in Mexico. The Egyptians is definitely the wrong answer. They were wayyyyy after. So...yea