History of Ancient Asia

In the Early Paleolithic, this was the main part of the zone of distribution of cultures with predominance of chopping tools such as chop-pens.

During the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic periods, the natural conditions of the humid tropics, which were more convenient for gathering of roots, fruits, wild-growing cereals and edible mollusks, became more important for hunting than fishing and hunting. Widespread use of macrolithic tools of collectors (for example, wooden hoes with stone tips and horn and bone hoes for extracting roots). History of ancient Asia (Iraq) ...

The Hoabinsk mesono-lytic culture had a significant influence on the development of the coastal cultures of East Asia, this influence was felt up to Japan and Primorye. In the Late Mesolithic - early Neolithic, as well as in the Near East, although on the basis of a different technology of making stone tools, the inhabitants of the foothills of Central Indochina proceeded to the cultivation of leguminous plants and melons. The period of the developed Neolithic was the time of transition to rice cultivation in river valleys.

Almost all the basic elements of peasant farming arose in Southeast Asia around this time. The most developed areas, where people lived in large agricultural settlements, were located along large rivers. The strong intersection of the relief and other natural features, as well as the emergence of rice growing, led to significant differences in the living conditions of representatives of the same ethno-linguistic groups, to complex intertwining of economic and social structures. This prevented the emergence of large unified early-agricultural civilizations, which arose in the valley of the Indus and the Yellow River. The history of ancient Asia (Iraq) ...

The most developed areas (lower reaches and middle reaches of the rivers of Sijiang, the Yangtze, the great rivers of the Indochina Peninsula) had a specific economic complex - rice growing with artificial irrigation.

From the Yangtze, according to a number of researchers, metal, rice and irrigation, plow farming and the use of draft animals have spread to the north. Here in the II millennium BC. E. There was also a written language, not yet deciphered. The metal industry also spread to the south, to Indonesia. But when the metal guns spread quite widely, it appeared that in the conditions of the Yellow River basin their application was accompanied by a more rapid development of the economy, as a result, from the middle of the II millennium BC. E. In the north, class society and the state arose, and the ancient cultural centers in the south began to gradually lag behind.

History of ancient Asia