Civilizations and Cultures

Rongxing Guo ()

Chapter Chapter 1 in Introduction to Intercultural Economics, 2012, pp 1-22 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter investigates the origins and the evolutions of ancient civilizations of the world. In order to answer why ancient civilizations are only associated with the rivers of the Euphrates, the Tigris, the Nile, the Indus, and the Yellow instead of the others, a challenge-and-response model of cultural development is founded, and the relationship between different natural disasters (threats) and the developments of ancient civilizations is examined. My discussion takes into account of the world’s major primary civilizations and concludes that rivers and their cyclic nature of annual floods—not tectonic plate boundaries and earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions—were a greater catalyst to the birth of the world’s oldest civilizations. This chapter also answers question such as why existing cultures are conflicting and also complementary.

Keywords: Ancient civilization; Culture; Cultural evolution; Cultural dynamics; Natural disaster; River system; River flood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29276-7_1

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