Mesopotamia--this early civilization traces connections to trade as early as 2300 BC connecting to Egypt and the Indus Valley.
Through trade, ideas and collective learning occurred spreading to these Bronze Age civilizations. Eventually this spread to more growing civilizations to the north (Greece) and east (Persia).
Cut the Confederacy in two.
The long March was a military retreat undertaken by the red army of the communist party of china, the forerunner of the peoples liberation army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (Chinese nationalist party) army