Essay On Chinese Civilization

The Origin Chinese Civilization

China is an East Asian country with an ancient history, very large territory and huge population. China is recognized as one of the oldest ancient civilizations of the world, together with ancient Egypt, Babylon and India. Many Fossils that have been found in Chinese territory which included those of Yuanmou Man, the first Homo erectus who mainly lived about 1.7 million years ago, those of Lantian Man, who lived 750,000 years ago and those of the Peking Man, who lived at Zhoukoudian in today's suburban Beijing 600,000 years ago and also the fossils of Shu Ape, a primate that lived 45 million years ago, which is known as the "first anthropoid" which were discovered in China in 1994.

Chinese civilization discovered itself 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, as indicated by the ruins of the Daxi Culture in Sichuan and Hubei provinces, the Majiapang Culture in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the Hemudu Culture in eastern Zhejiang and the Yangshou Culture along the middle reaches of the Yellow River and its main tributaries.

According to Wheeler, the famous archaeologist, Indus Valley Civilization had flourished from about 3000 B.C, before the existence of other civilizations. Indus Valley Civilization belonged to the late Neolithic Age and Chalcolithic (Copper) Age because there was no presence of iron tools and implements yet any part of this civilization. Indus Valley Civilization was named so because of its occurrence which was discovered along the banks of Indus River and its tributaries. "Indus" is the origin of the word "Hindu." The original Indian name of the river was Sindhu but ancient Iranians had difficulty pronouncing an initial "s" and changed it to "h", hence, "H-indu" instead of "S-indhu.". Indus Valley Civilization is also known as Harappan Civilization because of the fact that Harappa was the first city discovered in this