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From archaeological evidence it would appear that the first groups of people to stop being hunter-gatherers and set up permanent settlements with agriculture and domestic animals and a structured community was in Sumer. They also started us on the road to mathematics, geometry, poetry, fancy religious rituals, reading, writing and astrology. They seemed to have been pretty fair at homeopathic medicine and they were positively wizard at law. Politicking seems to have been another of their inventions, discoveries, whatever. They're the first we've ever found to record elections of local officials. Imagine that. And you thought the USA invented democracy. Or maybe the Athenian Greeks. Sorry, Sumer beat 'em both by about 3,000 years!

Location: Modern-day Basra area, in southern Iraq.

2006-06-10 07:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 2 0

All depends on what you mean by "civilized". The "We" in the following is shorthand for "humans."
We first started to become urbanized in Mesopotamia ("Land between the rivers") with organized agriculture and government and money and writing.
We first started deifying our leaders in Egypt, to which Pharoah Bush should give a regal nod.
We first started developing technology and philosophy as an art form in Greece.
We first developed the concept of "liberty" here in the Good Old NewKnight Statutes, and you see how well that has gone.
So you picks your "tipping point" for civilization, you gets your choices.
Some would (and have above) argued that we are still a might bit short of civilized.
Killem. Killem cause they're wrong and different and disagree with the majority.
No, wait, maybe that was their point?
Oh, well, consider that "civilization" is an unattainable goal (and truthfully perhaps that may be a good thing!). Or perhaps it is just a comparative -- "we're more/less civilized than they are". Or again, perhaps it is an illusion; a thin veneer lain over the fundamentally bestial nature of us naked apes.
Cheers.

2006-06-10 12:38:33 · answer #2 · answered by Grendle 6 · 0 0

Well the civilised world became into being in the lands to the east of the present day middle east, long before the greeks, egyptians, romans etc entered the picture. As for the father of these humans, they originated in Africa and migrated to these areas. So the land which fathered these civilised humans was Africa although civilisation grew in the east.

2006-06-10 12:25:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The earliest known civilizations (as defined in the traditional sense) arose in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq, the Nile valley of Egypt, the Indus Valley region of modern-day Pakistan and North India, and the parallel development of Chinese civilizations in the Huang He (Yellow River) and Yangtze River valleys of China, while smaller civilizations arose in Elam in modern-day Iran, and on the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea, as well as the Olmec civilization in present-day Mexico. The inhabitants of these areas built cities, created writing systems, learned to make pottery and use metals, domesticated animals, and created complex social structures with class systems.

2006-06-12 09:38:22 · answer #4 · answered by Jax 3 · 0 0

The "father of all civilizations" is ancient Sumeria, located in what is now called Iraq. It sprang up from nowhere, it seems. First written language, first community water and sewage systems, first large, ordered society of the ancient world.

2006-06-10 17:01:30 · answer #5 · answered by UCSteve 5 · 0 0

Greece. It's the cradle of modern civilization. It introduced democracy (Pericles), theater(Sofocles, Aisxylos, Euripides), philosophy(Socrates, Plato, Aristotle), made man and his soul the center of it, and has to present many mathematicians and physicists, who by the way lived over 3000 years ago, whose writtings still stand and on which, todays science has been based.

2006-06-10 13:35:31 · answer #6 · answered by metafrastria 4 · 0 0

Aliens that look after our evolution chose Israel for a mathematically calculated reason that is symbolic in physical presence to that of the nature of a reoccurence of peaceful coalition response of the most masterly conduct:::::> In time, my friend, let there be energies that are reflexive of God, but of course.... just adress to God this prayer: Grant Me Patience. I've slept for 2k years.... ;)

2006-06-10 12:33:39 · answer #7 · answered by gekim784l 3 · 0 0

Way back the Greeks were somewhat civil, but the biggest step came from Rome.

2006-06-10 12:21:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I must have missed something somewhere...but I have been sleeping for a few hours. When did we become civilized? Was it a great movement? How many died in the movement towards civility? Just curious.

2006-06-10 12:19:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Greece. It's where philosophical thoughts, fine arts, and democratic governments started over 2500 years ago. Also you could include architecture, open discourse, law, etc.

2006-06-10 12:21:42 · answer #10 · answered by mac 7 · 0 0

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