The Ancient Civilization (c 3500 B.C. – 500 A.D.)

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The ancient civilization between 3500 B.C. to 500 A.D. is refer by historians as “ancient times” or “antiquity”. The earliest date is 3500 B.C., which marks the beginning of civilization on Earth. The term civilization describes a culture that has reached a high degree of social, economic, and political development. Also, a system of writing, reading, highly organized religion, government, advanced technology, and a high level of art. Civilization also presumes the development of urban life, the word Civilization came from the Latin world civil, which mean “city dweller”.

During the 4000-year period, people around the world progressed at different speeds through a range of stages of development. In different parts at different times, many groups moved out of the Stone Age into the Ancient Civilization era. The term Stone Age is use to symbolize the stone tools and weapons of the time. Then into the Bronze Age, which people developed metalwork to replaced stone tools and weapons with copper and then bronze.

After that was the Iron Age, when people learned to melt and work with strong metals. While other people never left the Stone Age.

Larger civilizations gathered power and increase in strength in both East and West. Some ancient civilization reached their highest achievements, such as the ancient Greece, Rome, India, and China. Historians close the era of ancient times with the fall of the most powerful civilization, Rome. That was the year 500 A.D. starts the end of the ancient times.

The best way to learn from our history is to trace as far back to the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago. During the Ice Age, Earth’s climate was much colder than it is today. Giant glaciers, ice sheets can reached up to several miles thick, spread out from the North and South poles and covered large areas of northern Europe, Asia, and North America, covered one-third of Earth’s surface. During this Ice Age, it killed off many species of animals and places. That forced humans and other animals to migrate to ice-free land with warmer locations near the equator.

Slowly, the Earth began to warm. The glaciers began melting and the ice receded back toward the polar areas until it covered only one-twelfth of Earth. Forests grew on the newly thawed land and animals thrived, while plant life such as fruits, grains, and vegetables flourished. Humans started to migrate back to the newly productive lands, following the food that was once again available.