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On The Course Of Maya-Guizhou Karst Environment And Their Civilization

Posted on:2005-04-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W C WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120360122994305Subject:Physical geography
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Civilization of Guizhou and Maya all originated and flowered in karst region, international science field has promoted Maya civilization to the classical rate of global ancient civilization recent dozens of years, meanwhile, Guizhou approached to the world during its gradual reopening. Maya civilization had decayed after 16 century, whose civilization brought people exclamation, especially regretting. It was environmental crises stemming from industrial revolution that aroused scientist to have explored the environmental aspects of decadency of Maya civilization. Guizhou civilization has been inherited by their inhabitant. Guizhouese commenced in examining the advantages and disadvantages of their survival and development methods after their sadness and joy of looking on global varying.The article illustrated the relation of civilization and culture at first. Karst regions are one of origins of human civilization and culture. Consequently it discussed exploiting methods and varying of Maya and Guizhou resources in karst environment, discussed Maya and Guizhou civilization particulars and course on the grounds of biological environment, the difference and coincidence between Guizhou and Maya civilization. The essay accounted the existing problems ofGuizhou karst civilization and its developing tendency and hope.Culture contains material, behavioral and spiritual one, which gestates civilization after appropriate developing, and civilization is the concentration and evaporation of culture. Civilization can continue during the culture scientific development, meanwhile, culture develops during progress and renewal of science and productive force.Karst is a vulnerable ecosystem, whose basic feature is calciumnity in geochemistry. Atmosphere circle, water circle and biology circle all have dual constructions, which lead to steep terrain, poor soil and its flowing and losing easily and unbalanced distribution of water resource, which is dry and east-to-flood, has low product and environmental capacity. It was such living environment that Maya and Guizhou civilization originated in.Maya lies in the center of America, which is typical tropics rainy forest climate, the background of human living environment is composed of poor soil covered by volcano, plateau, basin, canyon, plain, and thick vegetation. Guizhou, which is subtropical monsoon climate, lies in Southeast of China in Asia, medium of local civilization and culture is composed of plateau, canyon and maintains. Hardness and cruelty of regional environment doesn' t injure their civilization status butenlarge greatness and brilliance.Land and water are the base of living, root of developing, they are most content of human living in karst region. Differing the climate environment belt between Guizhou and Maya, there are resemblances and differences in the methods and ways of land and water utilization, which form respective characteristic surviving approaches, living habitus and nation spirit. After selected and double-denied by historical forces, these material behaviors and spirit and culture factors that are stemmed from the background of karst concentrate and promote the aftermath of civilization.There are many coincidences and distinctions Maya and Guizhou in the course of their developing. Maya civilization vanished during the developing of agricultural civilization, another evidence shows us that the end of temporary brilliance will be death inevitably if we does' t obey nature laws; Guizhou civilization entered industrial civilization era and it is now on the threshold of biocivilization after agricultural civilization and then becoming a right part of China civilization circle. Industrial civilization spends its developing in conquering, looting, and devastating physical resources and environment. Just as other countries and regions, so this developing approach bring problems and potential devastationsin Guizhou where has vulnerable biological environment originally. Fortunately there are elites on Guizhou Plateau find the hope of biologica...
Keywords/Search Tags:karst, environment, civilization, Maya, Guizhou
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