The oldest recorded civilization in the world is the Mesopotamia civilization. Overall, the 4 oldest civilizations of the world are Mesopotamia Civilization, Egyptian Civilization, Indus Valley Civilization, and Chinese Civilization.
The four oldest civilizations are Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus valley, and China as they provided the basis for continuous cultural development in the same geographic location. For further reading check the following articles: Prehistoric Age in India. Prehistoric Rock Paintings.
Egypt: 6000 BC. India: 2500 BC. Vietnam: 4000 Years Old.
It is often said that Chinese civilization extends back 5,000 years.
Humans have been living along the Egyptian portion of the Nile since at least 5000 BCE. The earliest known humans came to Mesopotamia around 4500 BCE. Consequently, human habitation of Egypt is older.
Mesopotamia, 4000-3500 B.C.
All existing archaeological evidence and studies from around the world support the conclusion that Egypt's ancient civilisation appeared far earlier than that of China's, despite the shared similarities.
Although ancient Egypt and China never communicated with each other, they had many things in common. The exhibition "China and Egypt. Cradles of the World" shows inventions made in both countries a long time ago.
The simplest and most obvious conclusion is that the Sumerians were a Semitic people, just like their Akkadian neighbors and everyone else in the region (bear in mind that Semitic doesn't just mean Jewish, it also means Arabic).
In the Paleolithic period (roughly 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 B.C.), early humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers. They used basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals.
The earliest known empire was the Akkadian Empire. For around 1,000 years, Mesopotamia was dominated by city-states—small political units, where a city controlled its surrounding area. In 2330 BCE, Sargon of Akkad took control of southern Mesopotamia.
An old missionary student of China once remarked that Chinese history is “remote, monotonous, obscure, and-worst of all-there is too much of it.” China has the longest continuous history of any country in the world—3,500 years of written history. And even 3,500 years ago China's civilization was old!
Often called the “Cradle of Civilization,” Iraq was home to ancient Mesopotamian peoples who developed the world's first writing, agriculture and cities, between 10,000 and 3,000 BCE. Powerful civilizations from the Sumerians to the Neo-Assyrians ruled the region.
The Roman Empire was one of the greatest and most influential civilizations in world history. It began in the city of Rome in 753 BCE and lasted for well over 1000 years.
Scholars generally acknowledge six cradles of civilization. Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient India, and Ancient China are believed to be the earliest in the Old World.
A prehistoric people who lived in the region before the Sumerians have been termed the "Proto-Euphrateans" or "Ubaidians", and are theorized to have evolved from the Samarra culture of northern Mesopotamia.
After the rise of the Amorites in Mesopotamia, and the invasion of the Elamites, Sumer ceased to exist and was only known through references in the works of ancient writers, including the scribes who wrote the biblical Book of Genesis.
Originally Answered: Were the ancient Sumerians and Akkadians black or did they have generally lighter skin? The Sumerians and Akkadian likely looked much like the current population of the region — darker than Europeans and lighter than sub-Saharan Africans.
According to the ROA, it is hypothesized that populations of early modern Homo sapiens migrated from Africa and entered the southern part of China around 60,000 years ago; they then dispersed northward. They replaced totally the indigenous human beings and they are the unique ancestors of the modern Chinese.
Its first written records date back to IV millennia BC. The Chinese civilization originated in Hwang Ho and Yangtze river basins. And it was there, where the ancient farmers' settlements developed into first Chinese towns and national unions.
No, ancient Greece is much younger than ancient Egypt; the first records of Egyptian civilization date back some 6000 years, while the timeline of ancient Greek civilization usually begins about 3000 years ago.
The first kingdoms were established about 3000 B.C.E. in Kengir, also known as Sumer, and Kemet, also known as ancient Egypt. Sumer was a kingdom that existed between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what-is-now Iraq.
The era before ancient Egypt became a centralized state spanning the Mediterranean to the First Cataract in Nubia is called the Predynastic Period; it was the setting for many of the developments that made ancient Egyptian society so great and enduring.
While the Early period dates back ~3 millenniums before Rome, ancient Egypt continued until the Roman conquest of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in 30 BCE.