Schematic diagram of geographical scope of world ancient civilization center

The geographical scope of the world ancient civilization center is as follows:

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Was there a civilization center in the ancient world? If so, where is it?

According to the geographical discovery of Portuguese and Spanish, the places where human beings live are generally divided into the New World and the Old World. The so-called new continent is mainly the whole America, and neither Australia nor New Zealand in the South Pacific can be regarded as the old continent.

The old continent refers to Europe, Asia and North Africa (strictly speaking, sub-Saharan Africa was recognized by the mainstream civilization after the great geographical discovery).

If you look at the map, where is the center of Eurasia?

If you only look at the map, the geographical center may be in Central Asia. But we must first examine the meaning and evolution of the attribute of Europe and Asia.

Europe, Europa, comes from a Phoenician princess photographed by Zeus in ancient Greek mythology. The Greeks used this to call their continent, that is, the area west of Greece and north of the Mediterranean Sea. And Asia, Asia, its etymology can be traced back to Akkadian Assyrian, which means the place where the sun rises in the east.

Greeks used to refer to orientals, originally referring to the Anatolian semi-guide across the Greek mainland, that is, Asia Minor. Later, it generally referred to the vast area in the eastern Mediterranean, which was basically controlled by the Persian Empire at that time, that is, the area extending from Asia to India and Central Asia, including the Arabian Peninsula.

Africa, on the other hand, originated in the province of Rome, Africa, and originally only referred to parts of North Africa (excluding Egypt). After the Arab conquest, this name was also used, that is, Ephraim. The ancient Greeks often referred to North Africa outside Egypt as Libya.

It can be seen that the names of Asia and Europe were invented by the Greeks. At first, Asia only referred to the eastern civilized world known by the ancient Greeks. Specific to BC, it refers to Persia, India and Arabia.

What splendid civilizations have human beings created?

Since the birth of civilization, the book Map of Ancient Civilization has led us to travel around the world, stopping in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient China, ancient India and other places, showing the splendid civilization created by human beings across time and space in the past.

Taking hand-drawn maps as the carrier, combined with interesting small pictures and concise text introduction, this paper restores the general situation of thirteen ancient civilizations, allowing us to understand people's basic necessities of life, cultural customs, inventions and communication conflicts at that time, which not only has vivid details, but also presents the development process of human civilization macroscopically.