Asiatic Civilization


Asiatic civilization is a large grouping that includes five categories, and any of the three major ones could be considered nearly as important as western civilization. However, they are not as well known and are grouped together because of the lesser amount of available material. On this site, asiatic civilization is divided into Middle Eastern peoples, Oriental peoples, Indian peoples, Central Asian peoples, and Southeast Asian and Oceanic peoples.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Sociology Peoples Middle Eastern peoples Oriental peoples Central Asian peoples Indian peoples Southeast Asian and Oceanic peoples

Asiatic civilization is a large grouping that includes five categories, and any of the three major ones could be considered nearly as important as western civilization. However, they are not as well known and are grouped together because of the lesser amount of available material.

On this site, asiatic civilization is divided into Middle Eastern peoples, Oriental peoples, Indian peoples, Central Asian peoples, and Southeast Asian and Oceanic peoples.

Middle Eastern peoples

These include Levantine peoples, Mesopotamian peoples, peoples of Egypt, Anatolian peoples which have inhabited Turkey, Persian peoples, North African peoples, and Arabian peoples.

South Asian peoples

Indian peoples include roughly the inhabitants of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka although there are other groups, and the modern division into nations does not entirely reflect the sociology of these people.

Central Asian peoples

Central Asian peoples include Western Asian peoples living in the Caucasus region, Inner Asia, Mongolia, and Siberia.

Oriental peoples

Oriental peoples include major groups of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean peoples.

Southeast Asian and Oceanic peoples

This section includes not only mainland Southeast Asia, but peoples of the Southeast Asian island archipelagoes, the Australian aborigines, and the Polynesian peoples of the Pacific Ocean.


History Asiatic peoples can be considered in some detail by examination of their history. They originated in prehistoric times, and the first civilizations were Asiatic. In antiquity, the ancient civilizations of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, and the Harappan civilizations and early Chinese were prominent. In classical and medieval times, although some of these were conquered by Greeks and Romans, the Persian Indian, and Chinese civilizations were most prominent. Those of the Middle East were supplanted as Islam arose and spread widely throghout Asia. In modern times, Western Civilization had an increasing impact, but in the latest century, these peoples reasserted their political independence and identity, while retaining much of Western culture. Their future has scarcely been examined.	Links to other sites Asia World History Archives - History of Asia
Other Sociology There are various connections to other peoples of the world. Specific communities can be identified, and principles of social structure and change can be connected to Asiatic peoples. Institutions The institutions of the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, the Orient, and Southeast Asian peoples can all be considered. Religion Religion can be used to examine Middle Eastern, South Asian, Central Asian, Oriental, and Southeast Asian peoples. Particular traditions can be used to examine Middle Eastern, South Asian, Central Asian, Oriental, and Southeast Asian peoples. Asiatic religion can so far be applied to South Asian and Oriental peoples. Persian religion including Zoroastrianism, Manicheanism, and Mithraism can be connected. Indian religion such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, is especially important. Oriental religion including Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto is also important. Abrahamic religion is also important. Judaism is a minority religion in Asia as elsewhere. Christianity originated among Asiatic peoples and is still present, though not as influential as in Western civilization. Primitive Christianity originated here. There are some Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, and Mormons in many parts of Asia such as China, India, and Indonesia. Islam has become highly important throughout Asian peoples. Secularism is also represented. Pagan beliefs are significant. European pagan religion is not very significant, but Asian pagan religion is. African pagan and American Indian pagan religions are much less useful, and neopagan religions are also less important. Religious organization including unstructured, fragmented, and highly organized religions, practice, and beliefs, are not yet well described. Government Government can be applied to Middle Eastern peoples, South Asian peoples, Central Asian peoples, Oriental peoples, and Southeast Asian peoples. Particular governments Particular governments can so far be applied to Middle Eastern peoples, South asian peoples, Oriental peoples, and Southeast Asian peoples. International governments can be considered. Traditional empires are important. Colonial empires are significant. Modern compacts including temporary alliances, special purpose groups, regional groups, and world governments such as the League of Nations and the United Nations can be connected National governments, and local governments are also possible. Government activity is important. State relations, such as warfare, diplomacy, and espionage can be considered. Administration is important. Succession including election, inheritance, appointment, and siezure is important. Connections with government structure such as government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups will be useful. Law including International law, Western Law, Asiatic law, and tribal law will be significant. Economics Economic systems, such as system behavior, types of systems, networks, and firms will be important. Industries including companies, agriculture, extraction and manufaturing, construction, social and medical service, transportation, communication, and commercial services can be connected. Activities of production, distribution and exchange, and consumption will be important. Education including will be important. Particular schools including primary education, secondary education, and higher education will be useful and important. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be considered. Teaching and research are also important. Families including particular families, kinship, parenting, and marriage will be important in examining Asiatic peoples. Culture Middle Eastern, South Asian, Central Asian, Oriental, and Southeast Asian peoples can be examined using culture. Behavioral culture Cultural events including holidays, gatherings, disasters, and miscellanous events will be considered. Recreation and entertainment including games, sports, theater, dance, and music will be important. Occupations will be useful. Service occupations including institutional services, business and commercial services, sports, recreation, and entertainment, and social and medical services can be connected. Industrial occupations, communication-related occupations, transportation-related occupations, building-related ocupations, and food related occupations will be useful. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social interaction customs, and institutional customs can be considered. Conceptual culture is important. Philosophy including logic, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, special topics, and philosophical schools and doctrines can be examined. Applied science such as applied social science, accounting, information and computing science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be considered. Mathematics including foundations, arithmetic, algebra, analysis, geometry, and statistics may be applicable. Literature and particular works will also be considered. Graphic arts are useful. Language down to the level of linguistics, writing, and languages of the world will be important. Material culture including miscellaneous artifacts, communication technology, transportation technology, dress, buildings, and industrial technology will be examined as the site develops. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, preserved and processed foods, and raw foods can be connected. Anthropology Particular groups will also be connected. Human geography provides much of the foundation for this discussion. The primary emphasis is on Asian geography. Southwest Asia is prominent, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and North Asia is also significant. European geography also has some place in studies of Asiatic civilization, and African geography does also. There are also connections to Oceanic geography. Human ecology including environmental impact on people, relations with other organisms, and impact of people on the environment will also be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion will be useful. Demography including birth and fertility, death and morbidity, migration, population size and structure, and population growth is more directly useful. Social foundations such as social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, social group types are indirectly useful. Personal studies Particular biographies will be vital. These are associated with the principal peoples of Asia. Augustus Constantine Alexander Napoleon Urban II Umar I Asoka Caesar Stalin Justinian I Archimedes Gandhi Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology may be useful. The human body including body structure, body systems, human disease, life cycle, and form and appearance is for the most part indirectly useful. Science Biology is somewhat useful. Molecular biology and cell biology do not seem to be directly useful. Organism biology including habitat, tissues, organ systems, form, life cycle, and behavior seems to be indirectly useful at best. Systematics including microbes, protists, plants, fungi, and animals will be more useful. Ecology including behavioral ecology, population ecology, community ecology, systems ecology, evolution, ecosystems, and biogeography may be useful.Biohistory including Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic biohistory may be useful. Earth Science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, and physical geography including mapping, oceanic geography, and terrestrial geography will be useful. Geohistory including Precambrian, Paleolozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic life may be useful. Astronomy seems more significant than chemistry and physics.

History

Asiatic peoples can be considered in some detail by examination of their history. They originated in prehistoric times, and the first civilizations were Asiatic. In antiquity, the ancient civilizations of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, and the Harappan civilizations and early Chinese were prominent. In classical and medieval times, although some of these were conquered by Greeks and Romans, the Persian Indian, and Chinese civilizations were most prominent. Those of the Middle East were supplanted as Islam arose and spread widely throghout Asia. In modern times, Western Civilization had an increasing impact, but in the latest century, these peoples reasserted their political independence and identity, while retaining much of Western culture. Their future has scarcely been examined.

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World History Archives - History of Asia

Other Sociology

There are various connections to other peoples of the world. Specific communities can be identified, and principles of social structure and change can be connected to Asiatic peoples.

Institutions

The institutions of the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, the Orient, and Southeast Asian peoples can all be considered.

Religion

Religion can be used to examine Middle Eastern, South Asian, Central Asian, Oriental, and Southeast Asian peoples.

Particular traditions can be used to examine Middle Eastern, South Asian, Central Asian, Oriental, and Southeast Asian peoples.

Asiatic religion can so far be applied to South Asian and Oriental peoples.

Persian religion including Zoroastrianism, Manicheanism, and Mithraism can be connected. Indian religion such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, is especially important. Oriental religion including Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto is also important.

Abrahamic religion is also important. Judaism is a minority religion in Asia as elsewhere. Christianity originated among Asiatic peoples and is still present, though not as influential as in Western civilization. Primitive Christianity originated here. There are some Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, and Mormons in many parts of Asia such as China, India, and Indonesia. Islam has become highly important throughout Asian peoples. Secularism is also represented. Pagan beliefs are significant. European pagan religion is not very significant, but Asian pagan religion is. African pagan and American Indian pagan religions are much less useful, and neopagan religions are also less important. Religious organization including unstructured, fragmented, and highly organized religions, practice, and beliefs, are not yet well described.

Government

Government can be applied to Middle Eastern peoples, South Asian peoples, Central Asian peoples, Oriental peoples, and Southeast Asian peoples.

Particular governments

Particular governments can so far be applied to Middle Eastern peoples, South asian peoples, Oriental peoples, and Southeast Asian peoples.

International governments can be considered. Traditional empires are important. Colonial empires are significant. Modern compacts including temporary alliances, special purpose groups, regional groups, and world governments such as the League of Nations and the United Nations can be connected National governments, and local governments are also possible.

Government activity is important. State relations, such as warfare, diplomacy, and espionage can be considered. Administration is important. Succession including election, inheritance, appointment, and siezure is important. Connections with government structure such as government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups will be useful. Law including International law, Western Law, Asiatic law, and tribal law will be significant.

Economics

Economic systems, such as system behavior, types of systems, networks, and firms will be important. Industries including companies, agriculture, extraction and manufaturing, construction, social and medical service, transportation, communication, and commercial services can be connected. Activities of production, distribution and exchange, and consumption will be important.

Education including will be important. Particular schools including primary education, secondary education, and higher education will be useful and important. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be considered. Teaching and research are also important.

Families including particular families, kinship, parenting, and marriage will be important in examining Asiatic peoples.

Culture

Middle Eastern, South Asian, Central Asian, Oriental, and Southeast Asian peoples can be examined using culture.

Behavioral culture

Cultural events including holidays, gatherings, disasters, and miscellanous events will be considered. Recreation and entertainment including games, sports, theater, dance, and music will be important. Occupations will be useful. Service occupations including institutional services, business and commercial services, sports, recreation, and entertainment, and social and medical services can be connected. Industrial occupations, communication-related occupations, transportation-related occupations, building-related ocupations, and food related occupations will be useful. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social interaction customs, and institutional customs can be considered.

Conceptual culture is important. Philosophy including logic, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, special topics, and philosophical schools and doctrines can be examined. Applied science such as applied social science, accounting, information and computing science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be considered. Mathematics including foundations, arithmetic, algebra, analysis, geometry, and statistics may be applicable. Literature and particular works will also be considered. Graphic arts are useful. Language down to the level of linguistics, writing, and languages of the world will be important.

Material culture including miscellaneous artifacts, communication technology, transportation technology, dress, buildings, and industrial technology will be examined as the site develops. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, preserved and processed foods, and raw foods can be connected.

Anthropology

Particular groups will also be connected. Human geography provides much of the foundation for this discussion. The primary emphasis is on Asian geography. Southwest Asia is prominent, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and North Asia is also significant. European geography also has some place in studies of Asiatic civilization, and African geography does also. There are also connections to Oceanic geography. Human ecology including environmental impact on people, relations with other organisms, and impact of people on the environment will also be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion will be useful. Demography including birth and fertility, death and morbidity, migration, population size and structure, and population growth is more directly useful. Social foundations such as social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, social group types are indirectly useful.

Personal studies

Particular biographies will be vital. These are associated with the principal peoples of Asia.

Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology may be useful. The human body including body structure, body systems, human disease, life cycle, and form and appearance is for the most part indirectly useful.

Science

Biology is somewhat useful. Molecular biology and cell biology do not seem to be directly useful. Organism biology including habitat, tissues, organ systems, form, life cycle, and behavior seems to be indirectly useful at best. Systematics including microbes, protists, plants, fungi, and animals will be more useful. Ecology including behavioral ecology, population ecology, community ecology, systems ecology, evolution, ecosystems, and biogeography may be useful.Biohistory including Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic biohistory may be useful.

Earth Science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, and physical geography including mapping, oceanic geography, and terrestrial geography will be useful. Geohistory including Precambrian, Paleolozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic life may be useful. Astronomy seems more significant than chemistry and physics.

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