The Ancient Asian Civilization

Thank you guys for reading this article. I hope you learned a lot from this.:D Don't forget to come and visit those places that I have tell you. I assure you that you will really enjoy. And I know your money and time will not be wasted because all you will do is worth it.

Don't forget to take pictures on those spots and buy some souvenirs so that you will not forget that you have been to that very amazing places.

Have a safetrip guys! may Godbless you always and don't forget to pray to God and ask guidance from him to have a safe trip :D

Thank you again! You are amazingf guys!  AJA :))

The last and not the least the beautiful spots in China. We know that China has many beautiful spots that can make many tourist visit there. What I liked in China is because of there very unique practices and culture and especially their traditions.And China contributed a lot in the city-state they invented many cool things that is very useful nowadays. Once you will read some informations about them you will really amazed. So I want you to know some of the beautiful spots in China :D

 Mutianyu Great Wall 

Mutianyu Great Wall is one of the most beautiful sections of the Great Wall around Beijing. Mutianyu Great Wall is located in Huairou County 70km northeast of Beijing. The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall is linked with Jiankou in the west and Lianhuachi in the east. As one of the best-preserved parts of the Great Wall, the Mutianyu Great Wall used to serve as the northern barrier defending the capital and the imperial tombs.

Forbidden City 

The Forbidden City was the site of the former Chinese imperial palace for the last two dynasties – Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644 ) and Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911). The palace was first built between 1406 and 1420 and it was composed of 999 rooms with an area of 720,000 m2. It is located in the heart of Beijing, north of Tiananmen Square and south of Jingshan Hill and Beihai Park.

Temple of Heaven

The Temple of Heaven is a must attraction in Beijing. It literally means the Altar of Heaven was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Annual ceremonies of prayer were made to Heaven for good harvest.

Now it is one of the must see attactions in Beijing. The image of Temple of Heaven has become the symbol of Beijijg tourism.

What a very nice places :D

If you want to visit in China and this is our itinerary travel guide.

Trip to China

Day 1

- We will visit the former chinese imperial site of a two dynasties Ming and Qing Dynasty the "Forbidden City".

Day 2

- We will enjoy going and walking to the very long  Mutianyu Great Wall .

Day 3

- The last spot is the Temple of Heaven it is the must see attraction in Beijing China.

You guys should have fun and enjoy your trip! :D

You should come and visit the beautiful temples in Indus Valley. These temples are still present nowadays. So you guys should visit these wonderful holy temples and you will see there the statues of the gods they have in the past. :)

Virupaksha Temple

The Virupaksha Temple in the city of Hampi started out as a small shrine and grew into a large complex under the Vijayanagara rulers. It is believed that this temple has been functioning uninterruptedly ever since the small shrine was built in the 7th century AD which makes it one of the oldest functioning Hindu temples in India.

Taj Mahal    

The Taj Mahal in Agra is an immense mausoleum of white marble, built between 1632 and 1653 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife. Called “a teardrop on the cheek of eternity” it is one of the masterpieces of Mughal architecture, and one of the great tourist attractions in India. Besides the white domed marble mausoleum the Taj Mahal includes several other beautiful buildings, reflecting pools, and extensive ornamental gardens with flowering trees and bushes.

Golden Temple

The Harmandir Sahib, better known as the Golden Temple is the main tourist attraction in Amritsar, and the most important religious place to the Sikhs. Construction of the temple was begun by Guru Ram Dast in the 16th century. In the 19th century, Maharaja Ranjit Singh the upper floors of the temple were covered with gold. It’s a stunning temple, and always full of thousands of pilgrims from all over India, excited to be at a place that they usually only see on television.

How beautiful those temples are, I hope you guys will visit there! If you want to go there. This is the itinerary guide trip.

Trip to Indus Valley

Day 1

- We will visit the temple of Virupaksha Temple that can be found in City of Hampi.

Day 2

- Let us also visit one of the masterpiece of Mughal architecture called “a teardrop on the cheek of eternity” and it is the Taj Mahal temple in Agra.

Day 3

- The last temple we will visit is the most important religious place to the Sikhs the Golden Temple that can be found in Amritsar.

I hope you guys will enjoy your trip in Indus Valley! :D AJA!

Want to see the beautiful places in Mesopotamia? So this is it guys! :D I will introduced first the Mesopotamia's beautiful tourist spots because it is the place where civilization started.

The Library in Nineveh These Library was the oldest suriving library collection of cuneiform tablets, including the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, is all down to King Ashurbanipal of Nineveh, last of the Assyrian kings, who ruled from 668 to 630 BC.The Library of Nineveh (or Ashurbanipal), contained a wide variety of cuneiform texts on many varying topics from magical incantations, hymns, stories, divinations, mythological texts, letters, legal documents, religious texts, songs, poems and texts on medicine and astronomy. The library was set up in various rooms and organized according to the subject matter of the tablets.

Tower of Babel

Forms the focus of a story told in the Book of Genesis of the Bible. According to the story, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where they resolved to build a city with a tower” whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."

 God came down to see what they did and said: "They are one people and have one language, and nothing will be withheld from them which they purpose to do." "Come, let us go down and confound their speech." And so God scattered them upon the face of the Earth, and confused their languages, so that they would not be able to return to each other, and they left off building the city, which was called Babel "because God there confounded the language of all the Earth"

Ishtar Gate

These gate were made of blue stones. was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon. It was constructed in about 575 BC by order of King Nebuchadnazzer II on the north side of the city.

Hanging Garden in Babylonia

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, and the only one whose location has not been definitely established.Traditionally they were said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province in Iraq. The Babylonian priest Berossus, writing in about 290 BC and quoted later by Josephus, attributed the gardens to the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled between 605 and 562 BC. There are no extant Babylonian texts which mention the gardens, and no definitive archaeological evidence has been found in BabylonOne legend says that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were created by Emperor Nebuchadnezzar II, the king Of Babylon, for the Persian wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland. Emperor Nebuchadnezzar II also built a grand palace that came to be known as 'The Marvel of the Mankind'

You guys should visit those beautiful tourist spots especially those places where very historical. And you will really amazed once you will be there and I assure you that you will really learned a lot from that place. So guys Come and Visit those place and have fun! :D I will show you the itinerary of your trip!

Trip to Mesopotamia

Day 1 

- You will enter the very cool and fantastic gate called the "Ishtar Gate" that is made of blue stones.

Day 2

- Have fun reading some old collection of cuneiform writings in the Library in Ninevah. You will really learn something there.

Day 3

- Want some amazing adventure? Lets have fun going to the top of the tower of Babel whose top may reach unto heaven.

Day 4

- Are you now tired? I know that you are now tired but I am sure that you enjoyed also the trip in Mesopotamia. Okay, so now let us have some rest and go to the Hanging Garden in Babylonia and watch those beautiful plants there.

Have a nice trip to Mesopotamia guys and may Godbless you all :D

Mesopotamia - It is the land between two rivers the Tigris and Euphrates. It was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean  bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today’s Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.

The Sumerians were the first people in the Mesopotamia Civilization their place where called Sumer. Sumerians contributed a lot in the civilization we have today. Especially those technologies they have invented and introduced to people. Their culture was believed to be rich and highly developed. Good soil was the advantage that attracted these settlers to the flat, swampy land of Sumer.

SYSTEM OF WRITING

Cuneiform Writing - It is one of the earliest known system of writing. The Sumerians were the one who invented this kind of form of writing called the cuneiform found scripted on the Behistun Rock. Cuneiform in Latin is cuneus which means "wedge-shaped". It is a form of writing on wet clay tablets using wedge-like writing tools called stylus.

RELIGION

Polytheist - or believers of many gods. Anu was believed to be the god of clouds and air; Ea was the god of water and floods.

Monotheism- or the belief in one god. They believed that this universal god is just kind, merciful, loving, forgiving, righteous and demands that man should also be righteous.

MONUMENTAL STRUCTURES

Ziggurats - The Sumerians were the one who built the ziggurat and made offering and sacrifices of goats and sheep. They made the temple so that they can honor their gods and offer their offerings. These were massive pyramidal temples, having the form of terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Traditionally they were said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon. Emperor Nebuchadnezzar, the ruler of the Chaldeans, made Babylon a city of wonders. He built beautiful structures, the most striking of which was the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Hammurabi was the Amorite ruler the one who lead the Babylonians.He was the military ruler and a just and wise states man. His most important gift to civilization was his wriiten code the Hammurabi's code it expressed an important idea in Mesopotamia civilization. It emphasized the responsibility of the government towards its society.

Sargon - was the one who led his army from Akkad, a city-state north of Sumer. Sargon was the one who created the worl's first empire. An empire brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler.

Theocracy - it was believed to be the type of government of the city-state. The Sumerians were the one who introduced that kind of governmant in the city-state. It is a form of government in which the ruler is seen either as a god or as the chosen representative of a god.

Map of Mesopotamia.

SOURCES:

https://www.google.com.ph https://www.ancient.com.ph Asian Civilization Book

Chinese civilization originated in various regional centers along both the Yellow River and the Yangtze River valleys in the Neolithic era, but the Yellow River is said to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest civilizations. Chinese saw their country as the center of the civilized world, their own name for China was the Milddle Kingdom.

THE SHANG DYNASTY The first family of rulers to leave written records.Anyang, the capital of the Shang Dynasty was excavated around 1930.This dynasty was based on agriculture; millet, wheat, and barley were the primary crops grown. In addition to the crops, silkworms, pigs, dogs, sheep, and oxen were raised. Aside from their agricultural prowess, the Shang dynasty was also advanced in metallurgy. Bronze ships, weapons, and tools were found from that era.

The Shang dyansty was an aristocrastic society, with a king ruling over the military nobility. Territorial rulers were appointed by him in return for their support in his military campaigns. Underneath the aristocratic class was the priest class. The priests kept the records of the government and were also in charge of religion. The religion in the time of the Shang dynasty was based on ancestor worship and a worship of many gods; the main god was known as Shang Ti, the Lord on High.

The fall of the Shang dynasty was much like that of the Xia dynasty, the last king was a cruel tyrant. Instead of the people overthrowing the king, he was killed by a king from a rival kingdom, the Chou kingdom. The Chou dynasty was part of the Shang kingdom; its civilization was a combination of the Shang culture and that of non-Chinese civilizations.

THE CHOU DYNASTY was a Chinese Dynasty that followed the Shang Dynasty and preceded the Quin Dynasty. Although the Chou Dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in Chinese History, the actual political and military control of China. The Chou Dynasty rules China with its ruler claiming to rule by the "Mandate of Heaven".

THE ORACLE BONES are pieces of shell or bone, normally from ox scapulae or turtle plastrons, which were used for pyromancy – a form of divination – in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang Dynasty. Diviners would submit questions to deities regarding future weather, crop planting, the fortunes of members of the royal family, military endeavors, and other similar topics.[1] These questions were carved onto the bone or shell in oracle bone script using a sharp tool. Intense heat was then applied with a metal rod until the bone or shell cracked due to thermal expansion. RELIGION

BUDDHISM- Buddhism not only brought a different religion, but also brought a different culture. It influences the local culture on three main aspects: literature, art and ideology. Many famous poems have ideas from Buddhism and many Buddhist stone statues can be found, which show its huge influence.Buddhism has developed into the most important religion in China.

CONFUSIANISM Confucianism, not a real religion, is just an ethical and philosophical system, which developed from Confucius’ thoughts and later was treated as a kind of belief to educate common people. It obtained its stable position under the reign of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty (202BC-220AD), and became the ideology of the society in the feudal system since then. Based on the Four Books and Five Classics, the traditions and principles in the Confucianism played an important role in the formation of Chinese people’s thinking patterns and teaching methods. For instance, Doctrine of the Mean can be seen on communications among people. Now, to some extent, where Chinese people stay or live, there will be Confucianism. TAOISM Taoism, with more than 1,800 years’ history originated in the Warring Period and came into being in Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220). Now about 300 Taoist Temples are scattered around China, in which about 30 thousand Taoists lived in. Around 5 Taoist schools exist in the country and two main sections are included in Taoism. In the 1,800 years, Taoism influenced the local culture deeply, especially on traditional medicine and literature. Based on some theories of alchemists such as Wei Boyang in Eastern Han Dynasty, different kinds of medicine prescriptions were created by Sun Simiao and many other doctors. In literature, many fictional characters are closely related with Taoism, such as the Jade Emperor. Apart from Mainland China, many Taoists live in Hong Kong, Macau and some foreign countries.

Indus Valley Civilization was guraded by the two rivers of the Indus and the Ganges. These two rivers and the land they watered make up what is called the Indus-Ganges plain.The Indus Valley Civilization is also known as the Harappan Civilization. Long ago, around 2400 BCE,civilization grew in the river valley of the Indus in the present day Pakistan. It had developed from farming communities. The greatest of which were the cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harrapa. Like the other civilization,the Indus valley civilization also contributed to the civilization we have today. The first people to inherit the legacies of the Indus Valley civilization were the Aryans or the noble ones. They were known to be nomads who came from Iran through northwest India across the Khyber Pass. Aryans resulted to a very unique Indian civilization. Sindhu, then, was the name given to the Indus and Sanskrit was their language. Knowledge of the Aryan world came from theur four religious books, the Vedas.Veda means knowledge or wisdom. The Four Vedas are the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and the Atharva Veda.

A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture is evident in the Indus Valley Civilization making them the first urban centres in the region. The quality of municipal town planning suggests the knowledge of urban planning and efficient municipal governments which placed a high priority on hygiene, or, alternatively, accessibility to the means of religious ritual.

As seen in Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro and the recently partially excavated Rakhigarhi, this urban plan included the world’s first known urban sanitation systems: see hydraulic engineering of the Indus Valley Civilization. Within the city, individual homes or groups of homes obtained water from wells. From a room that appears to have been set aside for bathing, waste water was directed to covered drains, which lined the major streets. Houses opened only to inner courtyards and smaller lanes. The house-building in some villages in the region still resembles in some respects the house-building of the Harappans.

The cows were considered as sacred in the Indus Valley and were not killed, the cow is still considered as sacred in present in India. And they also worshipped other animals such as bulls.

Many small statues were found in Indus Valley Archeological sites. This lead us to believe that the people in Indus Valley were polytheistic religion, meaning that they worshipped many gods.

Map of the Indus Valley. Sources: https://www.google.com.ph Asian Civilization Book www.rexinteractive.com