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Oct. 7, 2009
Early Civilizations (Part 5 of World History Essays)
Mesopotamia was the first but certainly not the only civilizations in the ancient world.
The River Nile provided the perfect agricultural land for ancient Egyptian cities and towns, which would soon merge under the power of King Menes.
In about 3500 B.C, Farmers began to settle on the river Indes, in modern-day pakistan; thus beginning the first Indian Civilization—which would survive until an invasion by Aryan people from the west.
Chinese Civilization developed completely Independently from the rest of the world, as it was separated by the Himalayas—creating a distinct civilization.
The first real civilization in Europe was Greece. On the island of crete, the first culture to develop was the Minoans, who's culture would start at around 6,000 B.C and continue until around the second millennium B.C, when an invasion by the Mycenaens and an eruption of a nearby Vvolcano destroyed them.
Like their neighbors the Greeks, the Ethaseans relied mainly on the richness of the land and sea to thrive.
In America, civilization as such arrived much later, in about 1200 B.C, with the Olmecs.
-Isaac Aaron Buckley
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