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By archaeologically examining the earliest ways humans established city-states, monuments, and worshiped gods, as well as how they constructed daily life, the author of this book, Wengro, attempts to transcend the rise and fall of countries or regions and guide us back to the roots of history to rethink "what is civilization." He tried to explain that organized modern civilized society and ancient civilizations are of the same origin and closely related. This continuity transcends our traditional distinction between "prehistory" and "history." Based on archaeological discoveries, Unglot's discussion breaks through the scope of archeology and enters into the reflection of historical philosophy. He attempts to refute the "clash of civilizations theory" proposed by early theorists such as Huntington: From ancient times to the present, the connections and interactions between different civilizations in the world have never been interrupted. This connection is not only established at the level of trade and material flow, but also involves the mutual reference and penetration of cultures? The distance between civilizations has been seriously exaggerated by our consistent understanding. We are often tethered to identities and perspectives such as "European", "Egyptian" or "Middle Eastern", but in fact, cultural identity is not the product of isolation. Therefore, from this new historical perspective, different conclusions will be drawn about how modern society views the relationship between different civilizations, how to view their political and economic connections, and what sacrifices humans can make for a value system. In this book, we can get a glimpse of the origins of a certain civilization process, which may change our view of today's world order and future social development - the cycle of the rise and fall of empires may only represent a very small part of human experience.