Oldest Countries in the World

Human life began millions of years ago, but the earliest signs of human civilizations appeared only recently. The earliest civilizations and settlements gave rise to massive cities and nations around the world.

Here is a list of the countries that were formed thousands of years ago.

• Iran – Ancient Iran was known as Persia was founded around 550 BCE under the Achaemenid Empire. Before the rise of the Persian Empire, several groups of people who lived in the area would later become Iran including the Elamites and the Medes.

• Japan – Japan was founded in 660 BCE when the first Emperor of Japan, Emperor Jimmu ascended the throne and began Japan’s imperial dynasty.

• Greece – The Archaic period of Greece laid the foundations for Greek’s Classical period which established the foundations of modern western civilization.

• Ethiopia – Human life has been around in Ethiopia since millions of years according to records which show that the skeletal fragments of ancestors of modern human which dates back to 3.4 million to 2.9 million years were found.

• India – Starting with the Indus Valley Civilization, people have been living in the Indian subcontinent since around 3300 BCE. Even though these people formed one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations, the beginning of India as a nation started with the Vedic Period which lasted from c.1500 BCE – c. 600 BCE.

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