World of Gods
Chapter 1023

Civilizations and Nations

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"The human world has many different environments, but some are extremely unsuitable for human survival and make it difficult for powerful civilizations to develop. The most typical examples are ice fields, high mountains, and plateaus. This has nothing to do with humans; rather, the negative impact of these regions is simply too great."

"Throughout history, humans have been divided into different categories, but only three civilizations have truly reached their peak forms."

"In the beginning, all humans were considered nomadic and without fixed homes. Later, the four great Agricultural Civilizations ruled the world. Then the global environment changed drastically and temperatures fell. The frenzied Nomadic Civilizations moved south, successively devouring all the Agricultural Civilizations except the Chinese Civilization."

"Afterward, apart from the Chinese Civilization, the Nomadic Civilizations took the dominant position until the Oceanic Civilization completed its accumulation of strength and conquered the world."

"Now, it is a peak showdown between the Agricultural Civilization and the Oceanic Civilization, while the Nomadic Civilization hides in a corner, living off its past gains."

"Agricultural Civilization, Nomadic Civilization, and Oceanic Civilization. These three civilizations are not isolated, but instead have different focuses."

"If the three civilizations are measured according to four dimensions—morality, cooperation, hierarchy, and risk-taking—and other factors such as religion are excluded, an interesting result can be obtained."

"The society of the Agricultural Civilization has high morality, high cooperation, high hierarchy, and low risk-taking."

"Because the living environment of the Agricultural Civilization is relatively stable, it does not need large amounts of risky activity to seek food. Good social and moral relationships are necessary to ensure the stability of the group. Therefore, this kind of society chose Confucianism, which placed greater emphasis on social relationships, morality, and hierarchy. This conforms to the theory of evolution, because natural selection in evolutionary theory clearly

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