The four ancient civilizations are the collective names of the four ancient civilizations of the world, which are ancient Babylon, ancient India, ancient Egypt and China. Nowadays, ancient Babylon can no longer be found on the world map, its territory probably belongs to today's Iraq, the other two ancient countries ancient Egypt and ancient India have been interrupted in culture because of the origin of history, only China has not been interrupted, so there is no need to add the word "ancient" to the name of the four ancient civilizations, which has to be said to be a kind of pride, so why only China has not been interrupted? Because China has a characteristic.
First, let's look at how several other ancient kingdoms were interrupted, the ancient Babylonian kingdom was located in the hub of the two river basin trade routes, rich in water sources and fertile land. During the reign of King Hammurabi, he conquered the states of Isin, Uruk, and Lalsha. And established the earliest slave state of mankind, claiming to be the king of the four sides of the world.
However, it was because of the slavery of ancient Babylon that led to internal struggles against debt slavery, coupled with the invasion of Elam and Gassett in the later period, which eventually led to the weakening of this huge kingdom, and in 1595 BC, the crumbling kingdom of ancient Babylon was finally destroyed by the Hittite ruler Murciris I.
Ancient Egypt is located in northeast Africa and the Middle East today, spanning both Continents and Asia and Africa, with a considerable territory. Ancient Egypt has a very long history, about 7400 years ago in the Fayoum region centered on the emergence of settlements to organize city-states and then form a state, after 33 dynasties ruled for more than 5,000 years, the birth of a complete written system, political system and system and polytheistic religious system, but finally died by the Roman Empire.
India's ancient civilization was also discovered only in 1922, because the ruins of the civilization were excavated in the Haraba region of India, so it is often referred to as the Haraba culture. The Harappa culture is the ancient Indian Bronze Age culture, from the excavated city ruins, this civilization has a very high level in the planning and architecture of the city, and this period of tribal society assimilation began to transform into the state, the Peacock Dynasty was born in 187 BC, the last king of the Peacock Dynasty was overthrown. Since then, the Indian peninsula has never been reunified.
In Chinese history, although there have been two invasions by peoples outside the Central Plains, established in the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368) and the Qing Dynasty (1616-1912), these two dynasties have been "Sinicized" without exception, and they are both establishing the legitimacy of their rule on the basis of Chinese civilization.
So why can Chinese civilization have such power? The answer lies in the idea of great unity established in China, which made the change of dynasties a process of accumulation rather than a process of mutual substitution, and the first person to establish this idea was Qin Shi Huang.
The American scholar Stavrianos once pointed out to the point: "Although the establishment of the Qin Dynasty was so short-lived, it left a long mark on China, changing China from a sub-feudal state to a centralized state, and unifying culture and system, which has influenced future generations for more than 2,000 years." The stability within Han culture comes from this kind of attraction to rulers, even after the change of dynasty, the ruling rulers will still use Han culture to maintain the stability of the country and ensure the stability of their absolute power.