The Xia was a very powerful group and when they came to Erlitou everyone else wanted to go to Erlitou.

Many suggest the site at Erlitou was the Xia Dynasty's capital. Erlitou is near modern day Yanshi City. However, the Xia Dynasty is not yet historically verified so this suggestion is just based upon matching legendary materials with archaeological evidence. No one can really know what the capital of the 'Xia Dynasty' was. At least not with the currently known sources.

This is an alphabetically ordered list of ancient civilizations. It includes types of cultures, traditions, and industries as well as more traditionally defined civilizations.

1. Abbevillian industry
2. Acheulean industry
3. Aegean civilizations
4. Amratian culture
5. Ancestral Pueblo culture
6. Ancient Egypt
7. Ancient Greek civilization
8. Ancient Iran
9. Ancient Italic people
10. The ancient Middle East
11. Ancient Rome
12. Andean cultures
13. Archaic culture
14. Assyria
15. Aterian industry
16. Aurignacian culture
17. Australian Aboriginal peoples
18. Azilian industry
19. Badarian culture
20. Banpo culture
21. Big-Game Hunting Tradition
22. Boian culture
23. Capsian industry
24. Carthage
25. Chavín
26. Chellean industry
27. Choukoutienian industry
28. Clactonian industry
29. Dawenkou culture
30. Desert cultures
31. Dong Son culture
32. Dorset culture
33. El Argar
34. Erlitou culture
35. Ertebølle industry
36. Fauresmith industry
37. Gerzean culture
38. Ghassulian culture
39. Hohokam culture
40. Hongshan culture
41. Ibero-Maurusian industry
42. Indus civilization
43. Inugsuk culture
44. Ipiutak culture
45. Jōmon culture
46. Kachemak culture
47. Kurgan culture
48. Lapita culture
49. LBK culture
50. Longshan culture
51. Lupemban industry
52. Magdalenian culture
53. Maglemosian industry
54. Magosian industry
55. Mesopotamia
56. Minoan civilization
57. Mississippian culture
58. Moche
59. Mogollon culture
60. Mousterian industry
61. Mycenaean civilization
62. Nachikufan industry
63. Natufian culture
64. Nazca
65. Nok culture
66. Old Cordilleran culture
67. Oldowan industry
68. Osteodontokeratic tool industry
69. Paracas
70. Perigordian industry
71. Phoenicia
72. pre-Columbian civilizations
73. Qijia culture
74. Recuay
75. Sangoan industry
76. Solutrean industry
77. Stillbay industry
78. Tasian culture
79. Tayacian industry
80. Teotihuacán civilization
81. Thule culture
82. Trypillya culture
83. Urnfield culture
84. Villanovan culture
85. Woodland cultures
86. Yangshao culture
87. Yayoi culture

..culture is learned..

..culture is transmitted orally and by writing..

..culture is shared..

..culture is patterned and integrated..

..culture is adaptive and maladapive..

..culture is compulsory..

and

..culture is essential for social life..

the nacirema culture is a culture that is a culture.(Ha WEIRD mee)