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Hello everyone, I'm a senior. Welcome to the History Salon of Seniors. Today we will talk about ancient civilizations. When it comes to ancient civilizations, we have to mention the four kings of ancient borders: China, ancient India, ancient Greece, and ancient Egypt. However, today we will not talk about the specific characteristics of these four ancient countries, but about their commonality: ancient civilizations were born.
In fact, this problem is very simple, many people gathered in the same place and established an ancient civilization. So why aren't there so many people anywhere else, only so many here? There is no other reason than livability, just as we now judge livable cities. These places are generally places with a suitable climate and abundant water sources. Everyone knows that in primitive society, everyone relied on going out to hunt and pick wild fruits and dig wild vegetables to fill their stomachs, hungry and full to live in uncertain places, and it was easy to die or be injured when encountering powerful beasts. Even with this effort, I often can't fill my stomach. One day, you go to the house of a good friend of the tribe next door to take a look, good guy, this piece of wild vegetables and bullied small animals have been eaten, the friend's tribe has long moved away, so, good friend -1. Running around every day, not enough to eat and make friends, all the time the iron man has to emo it, so everyone brainstormed and decided to settle down. It is good to settle down, but it means that you can't run with the food, you always stay together, and sooner or later the wild vegetables and fruits and small animals sit and eat the mountains. At this time, you are smart and you spoke at the tribal assembly, since the wild ones are unreliable, we can grow our own food and raise animals, and everyone applauds you when they hear your suggestions. The nearby tribes saw that you did not have to travel and did not starve to death, they were very curious and envious, and sent representatives to your tribe for friendly exchanges and learn advanced production experience, so that the first agriculture and animal husbandry in human history developed and spread (the prerequisite for the formation of civilization).
As the smartest person in the tribe and the first to settle down, you are now the leader of the tribe, and you have long been out of production, but it is still a little difficult to manage so many people. So you choose a group of smart and loyal people who don't have to be productive, but just help you manage your growing tribe. You and this group became rulers, and classes began to appear.
With the help of this group of people, your tribe is governed in an orderly manner, the population is increasing, and new problems have arisen, in the past, there were few people and few things, and what things can be explained clearly and remembered in a few words, now there are many people and complicated affairs, and then rely on the same oral transmission as before. So it was suggested that things be carved on clay tablets, and the oldest writing - cuneiform was born.
After you annexed many surrounding tribes one after another, you felt that the title of chief was no longer worthy of yourself, so you called yourself a king, the originally elected administrators became officials, the primitive state began to be established, and human civilization was officially formed.
You let the people of the conquered tribes do the most tiring and dirty work, enjoy the worst treatment, even their lives are not guaranteed, they become slaves, you create a new system, a system of exploitation - slavery. In order to make the slaves honest and not resist your rule, you created the army, prisons and other state violence machines. Finally, your country is stable, and it is developing rapidly, and an ancient civilization has gradually formed.