早期文明比较研究

Early Civilizations:A Comparative Perspective

The birth of the state and civilization is a complicated problem, and only through long enormous work can it be satisfactorily explained. Concerning the birth of the state, many scholars have put forward various expounding models, but current researches show that the same model is not bound to be applicable to every earliest state. It calls for furthering deep-going and extensive studies to re-examine the relative significance of those models in different regions, as well as to dissect similarities and differences between the archaic states and civilizations arising in China, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus,highland Mexico and the Andes. Nevertheless, for researchers working in different regions of the world,exchange and association are also indispensable to the accomplishment of that aim. In the present essay,the author discusses the course of ancient states' birth by means of the comparative study, and emphasizes the great importance of all-sided understanding the causes of the ancient Chinese state's birth to going deeply into the cross study of culture.