{"id":16405,"date":"2014-12-27T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T09:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16405"},"modified":"2014-12-27T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T09:01:21","slug":"where-did-civilisation-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16405","title":{"rendered":"Where did civilisation begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over Christmas, I bought &#8220;The Times Concise History Of The World&#8221; which is a wonderful book to browse, full of colour maps and fascinating facts.<\/p>\n<p>One can see very clearly how civilisation emerged in the so-called &#8220;lucky latitudes&#8221;. The first civilisations arose in the alluvial basins of four major rivers which drain from the mountain fringes where agriculture began:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia starting around 3500 BC<\/li>\n<li>The Nile in Egypt starting around 3200 BC<\/li>\n<li>The Indus in India starting around 2500 BC<\/li>\n<li>The Yellow River in China starting around 1800 BC<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Many people seem to think that the rise of civilisations is a matter of the superiority of certain races. Actually it is all to do with geography and climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over Christmas, I bought &#8220;The Times Concise History Of The World&#8221; which is a wonderful book to browse, full of colour maps and fascinating facts. One can see very clearly how civilisation emerged in the so-called &#8220;lucky latitudes&#8221;. The first civilisations arose in the alluvial basins of four major rivers which drain from the mountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16423,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16405\/revisions\/16423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}