What is the longest living civilization?

Originally posted by Bulldog   The MesoAmerican people still exist with strong links to their ancients, they should be considered among the longest living civillisations.

Originally posted by perikles Tell us one modern country that its current civilization has relation with 4000 years ago? Greeks are not having relations, Indians also, Chinese etc. Tell us one because in this way of thinking the modern civilizations are just come up from the sky. Nobody has relation with the old ones accordings to some posts here.

Originally posted by perikles Tell us one modern country that its current civilization has relation with 4000 years ago? Greeks are not having relations, Indians also, Chinese etc. Tell us one because in this way of thinking the modern civilizations are just come up from the sky. Nobody has relation with the old ones accordings to some posts here.

I beg to differ. India culture & religions is still the same as it was at least 7000 years ago, at the same place also. So many people defeated them militarily, but the culture is intact & prospering.

I would definately disagree with Greeks and Native Americans. The oldest living civilizations would almost definatley be peoples from Sub-Saharan africa and after them, Indians, Egyptians or Sumerians

 

Originally posted by perikles Originally posted by Vivek Sharma Originally posted by perikles Tell us one modern country that its current civilization has relation with 4000 years ago? Greeks are not having relations, Indians also, Chinese etc. Tell us one because in this way of thinking the modern civilizations are just come up from the sky. Nobody has relation with the old ones accordings to some posts here.   I beg to differ. India culture & religions is still the same as it was at least 7000 years ago, at the same place also. So many people defeated them militarily, but the culture is intact & prospering.   Greeks spoke almost the same language, They have almost the same alphabet. We live in the same place. Whats the difference?

In Which hotel you stayed? :)

I know PLaton and Socrates better than you think. It is not 4000 but approx 2500. I misstyped that. So you make your point. The modern civilizations has not relation with rhe old ones.When we say the civilizations ae evolved that means that they are not the same with he ancient ones but there are some common points.  I can't understand why you find difficult to accept this common sense

Edited by perikles - 07-Sep-2006 at 10:23

Well the greeks despite being ruled by other powers also kept their language and culture,i'll give them that.

I see an Indocentrist crank has hijacked this thread.  It is a FACT that cental Asian nomads migrated into Northern India as a result of the power vacuum resulting from the collapse of the Indis Valley civilization and that those nomads spoke Proto-Indo-Iranian.

    The oldest civilization with a practiced form of worship is not Hinduism. Hinduism is a European term applied in the 18th century to explain the complexity of the various systems of belief in India. Because there are som many. I believe the Dravidians(Dravidianism) is the oldest. Hinduism and even the Abrahamic religions are rooted in one way or another as well as all other major philosophies. Christianity,Islam etc. Try researching "The Vedas" and find out how mix Christianity and Sanatana Dharma(Hinduism) is.