What is the oldest civilization?

Answer 1

Well, the answer to this seems to change on a regular basis because there were many proto-civilizations that arose around the same time on several continents.

There were the pre minoan cultures, the cultures along the nile, the tigris, euprates, some in areas of south east asia and others in both north and south america and even more.

It is one of the interesting mysteries that so many places should all rise to a similar level at around the same time, and has long been used as part of the basis to believe in the fall of an even older precursor civilization such as Mu, Lemuria, Atlantis or Hyperboria to name a few.

There is also some basis to say that the seemingly amazing parallel in time of such rises are really not all that close chronologically and that it is just the dating methods and the somewhat broad margin for error that makes it seem that way.

There is a pretty good wikipedia entry on the subject that might give you some nice reference points and other topics of interest.

Answer 2

The Indus valley civilization is unquestionably one among the oldest, yet no longer the oldest interior the international. That distinction is going to Mesopotamia, specifically the Sumerian civilization. Sumer predates Babylon and Egypt by making use of approximately 1000 years. The Indus valley got here by making use of itself approximately 1500 years after.

Answer 3

ran (Persia)

Iran is the ancient name of Persia, and it is derived from the root "Arya" or Aryan. The plateau of Iran is among the oldest civilization centers in the history of humanity and has an important place in archeological studies. The history of settlement in the Plateau of Iran, from the new Stone Age till the migration of Aryans to this region, is not yet very clear.

Iran has about 8000 years of history. Iran is the oldest civilization in the world. This is the latest research on history of civilizations, archeology & anthropology. When we say 8000 years, it does not mean 8000 years of Aryan Civilization. It means 8000 years history of Iran, meaning every civilization which lived in Iran. By this, we mean the very first civilization which lived Geologically on Iranian Continental Shelf, Geographically on Iranian Plateau, and Physically inside the Greater Iran.

Shoosh, The First Civilization:

The very first civilization which has ever lived in Iran was The Shoosh Civilization. 8000 years ago, there was a civilization which lived in today's Khoozestan, their name was "Shoosh Civilization," or in English "Susa Civilization." So far this has been reported as the oldest civilization which have ever existed on Earth. By civilization, we mean civilized city government or city state or Empire or Kingdom or any type of local civilized system. Archaeologists divide time periods & discoveries of Shoosh, into two periods: Period One & Period Two. These periods are based on Geological Layers which the fossils & other material has been found in them, layer one & two which are on top of one another. Archaeologists were digging in shush since 1897 by "Jan Morgan" the French Archaeologist, all the way until the present day. Dr. Sheila's was also another valuable archaeologist who dedicated a lot on uncovering the secrets of whoosh.

Answer 4

The origin of civilization was always referenced to the time when humans stopped roaming nomadically and began to settle down and establish agricultural centers. I've since learned that many civilizations basically started at roughly the same time, but I was always taught that Sumeria was the first, official civilization (many people united under one banner as "citizens").

Other than that, I really couldn't tell you. I can only conjecture, just like the archeologists and anthropologists.

Answer 5

It depends on how you define the term.

My definition includes only literate peoples, and that would be the city of Uruk from 3400-3000 BC.

If your definition is literal, meaning "those who lived in cities", then you have to go back to between 5000 and 4000 BC in Northern Iraq and Syria. Up to that point, they had small settlements of either tent groups or clay houses totaling up to 100 people or so, they had between 10 and 20 domesticated animals, farming and advanced stone tools (no copper yet).

The answer immediately below me is another possibility, but he overestimates the age. There were established trade routes in the Zagros Mountains as far back as 5000 BC.

The earliest verifiable military empire was 4000-3500 in the same area. It began in Uruk on the Persian Gulf and spread north. Uruk captured older settlements at Babel, Susa, Nineveh moving north, then as far as the Euphrates to the west and the copper mines in Iran to the east. This is likely the empire spoken of in Genesis 10 credited to Nimrod. The cities mentioned in Genesis are precisely the same as those that administered the empire (Uruk = Erech).

Answer 6

Are you asking what and where the first city-states developed? Or the first organized series of caves dwelt in by man?

Standard agreement has it that most civilization started in the Fertile Cresent, in upper africa and egypt. the oldest cities went to dust without their names having ever been recorded anywhere.

Answer 7

Some say it was Catalhoyuk, in modern-day Turkey.

Answer 8

Firstly, you have to define civilisation quite tightly. Is a group of people living in a cave "civilised"?

Answer 9

Middle Earth and all it's inhabitants

Answer 10

Mesopotamian i think