The Human civilizations and cultures in the remote past developed
independently and separately in their isolated regional/geographical
settings as per their natural situations. The human mind has always been
interacting and negotiating with its surroundings and developing its
belief systems and social practices, so you come to know about various
cultures of anteriority. Earlier, the contact between such cultures was
meager and confined to some adventurous traders who were able to
establish contact with distant areas, for example, you know about trade
links even between the proto-historic Indus and its contemporary
Mesopotamian civilizations. With the conquering of the alien regions and
peoples by some ambitious leaders and the emergence of vast political
empires, however, larger areas were knit together, which also opened the
gates of cultural interaction and progress of synthesized cultures and
civilizations, expansion of trade links, and so on, in broader areas.
Furthermore, with the emergence and progress of new religious movements,
Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam in particular, a greater number of
people came together under their shades of religious culture, widening
the boundaries of humanity. Thus, humanity, at large, has always been
aspiring for expanding and widening the area of its activities in
harmony and peace, despite the experiences of conflicts and wars quite
contrary to it.
