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かいよんだいぶんめい 世界四大文明
Noun
1. the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India, and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
Wikipedia definition
2. Cradle of civilizationThe cradle of civilization is a term referring to locations identified as the sites of the emergence of civilization. In Western European and Middle Eastern cultures, it has frequently been applied to the Ancient Near Eastern Chalcolithic, especially in the Fertile Crescent, but also extended to sites in Armenia, and the Persian Plateau.
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