New Delhi: The history of Asia has witnessed the rise and fall of several civilisations, with some of them having a long-lasting impression on the course of human history. Those civilisations came up with discoveries and inventions which were breakthroughs, they had administrative systems which played a pioneering role in the later ages. In this article, we will take a look at the major civilisations in Asian history.
Major civilisations in Asian history
Indus Valley Civilisation
The Indus Valley Civilisation existed in the Bronze Age in South Asia’s northwestern regions. The civilisation lasted from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and the period from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE is considered to be its mature form. Along with Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, it was one of three early civilisations of South Asia and the Near East. The Indus was the most widespread of the three, as it covered northwestern India, northeast Afghanistan and most of modern-day Pakistan.
The cities of the Indus Valley civilisation are hailed for baked brick houses, urban planning, elaborate drainage and water supply systems, numerous buildings which were non-residential, metallurgy and handicraft. Around 30,000 to 60,000 people lived in Harappa and Mohenjo-daro and during its peak, the entire civilisation may had between one and five million people.
Mesopotamian Civilisation
Often hailed as the cradle of human civilisation, the Mesopotamian Civilisation was located in West Asia within the Tigris-Euphrates river system and covered present-day Iraq, and also parts of Turkey, Iran, Kuwait and Syria. From around 10,000 BC, Mesopotamia witnessed the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution and it witnessed some of history’s most important developments like the wheel’s invention, the development of mathematics and astronomy, the planting of the first cereal crops, and the development of agriculture.
Chinese Civilisation
The Chinese civilization is one of the oldest in the world as it dates back to 5,000 years. Its first written records date back to IV millennia BC. It first originated in the Yellow River valley and it forms the geographic core along with the Yangtze basin of China’s culture. It has a dynamic civilisation which witnessed the rise and fall of the imperial dynasties and its narrative can be traced as an unbroken thread many thousands of years into the past, making it one of the cradles of civilization.
The Indus Valley Civilisation existed in the Bronze Age in South Asia’s northwestern regions. The civilisation lasted from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and the period from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE is considered to be its mature form. knowledge Knowledge News, Photos and Videos on General Knowledge
