Where did civilization begin?

Question

Some people say Mesopotamia, but what about Egypt? I mean we don't even know how far back egypt goes. So can't we assume that because it is so old we don't know how old it is that it would be the oldest.

I am asking because my college professors says that scholars intentionally obscure the fact that Civilization began in Africa (by Africans of course). I did some research and apparently this is true

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization#Sumer_3500.E2.80.932334_BCE

now why do some scholars say civilizations started in Sumer/Akkai whil other say Ethiopia/Egypt?

adam and eve were'nt civilized

Answer 1

yeah my college proffesor said the same thing
so i guees two prffesors can't be wrong
plus most things i have read say that civilization started in Africa

Answer 2

Where Did Civilization Begin

Answer 3

Adam began what is known as the Adamic Cycle, this Age is at it s end now last Days or End Time. We are now at the Beginning of a new Age of a far greater length, which will see the whole world as a united Global Divine Civilization, where Peace, Justice and mercy will flow through Its Institutions which will be structured in accordance with the recently revealed Loving Will of God.
Sure we are having a difficult time heading into the transition but we can be confident humanity will make it and those contending factions will be a thing forgotten.
We should also know that before the Adamic Cycle there have been many other Cycles of human development but all traces are lost to us due to the earth s ongoing Continental shift.

Answer 4

As noted above, both archaeology and the Bible show clearly the answer is Mesopotamia. The Africa nonsense is just more of the current politicized culture which pushes the idea of black superiority down our collective throats, and allows baseless nonsense like the Trayvon thing in Florida and the current mess in Missouri.
It is also the reason that male black/white female is pushed relentlessly on TV and in movies, as is the current popular stereotype that blacks are endlessly cool and white people are dorky. And it's perfectly fine for Chris Rock to make racist comments about white people, but if Michael Richards says something impolite in dealing with black hecklers, he is instantly the reincarnation of Adolph Hitler.
Civilization has not flowered in Africa yet, how could it possibly be it's birthplace?
The reason for the sum total of everything going on today is simple, the Age of Gentiles has begun, and it will get a whole lot worse between now and the return of the Messiah, who will deliver our survivors from their oppression by turning the gentiles into a puddle of goo as deep as a horse's bridle, for the space of 5000 miles.

Answer 5

The first and oldest fossils were found in East and South Africa... they are over 5 million years old. Therefore, civilization did indeed begin in Africa.
The bible is such a huge fabrication. Only an idiot would cite it as a a credible source; especially when referring to the beginning of civilization.

Answer 6

It's Mesopotamia--its older than Egyptian history and accounts for influential inventions which are valued today, such as the inventions of the wheel, number 0, irrigation system (toilets), sundial, lens, glass, lock & key, establishment of a city, and many others. These inventions help make Mesopotamia more "civilized." Mesopotamia is credited as being the "cradle of civilization", therefore making it the begining of civilization.

Answer 7

The Ancients For much of recorded history Europeans were a primitive bunch. For roughly a thousand years they passed through a dark age living in tribal villages, assisted by no real government, exploited by gangster lords, ignorant of the world beyond a day's walk of their dirt floored shacks. With no written language of their own they were illiterate, superstitious, afraid of witches, magic spells, and a thousand forest spirits. Life was brutal, ugly, short.

It wasn't always so.

Earlier, between about 1,000 BC (much earlier in Mesopotamia and Egypt) and when the Middle Ages began—sometime near 500 AD., tribal villages in Mediterranean Europe grew into city states, city states into nations, and nations into vast civilizing empires.

Enduring civic institutions brought stability and prosperity to millions. Prosperity brought cosmopolitan cities, roads, travel, commerce, suburbs, learning, literature, drama, representative art, engineering, architecture, mathematics, philosophy. And sophisticated religion.

We call this first great historical western flowering "Ancient Civilization." Rome, Greece, the pyramids, Jesus, that stuff. Ancient civilization endured over 1,500 years. We call the people who lived then and there the "Ancients."

There were Ancient Chinese too. We're not talking about them.

That's a big deal for a couple reasons. First, the myth of Atlas itself is an example of what associate professors call the ancients' "cosmology"—their ideas about the fundamental structure of the universe. You won't be surprised to hear the Ancients' ideas about cosmology influenced their religious beliefs. Pagan and Christian.

Second, our modern error of plopping on Atlas' shoulders the Earth rather than the Cosmos points up the profundity of our understandable misconceptions about the Ancient world. We've reinterpreted their myth to fit our own ideas about the structure of the universe. The way we understand the universe is deeply different from the way the ancients understood it.

Christianity is an ancient religion. If the history of religion interests you, you'll have to get beyond modern misconceptions and reinterpretations and learn how the ancients saw the universe before you can understand how Christianity and other ancient religions were invented. Man, that's a long sentence.

What's wrong with this picture? Olympian Atlas holding the Earth on his shoulder—it's an image sunk deep in western culture. But did the Greeks who came up with the myth really conceive of the Earth as a big globe Atlas could tote around?
No they didn't.

The Greek God Atlas didn't hold the Earth. He held the Universe—the cosmos, the celestial spheres.


What's more, the Romans would go to the mixed- sex public baths completely naked. And, for women followers of the Goddess Cybele, having sex with a stranger at the temple was a religious act—a holy duty! And, get this, you read in the ancient texts about a man, a follower of Dionysus, dedicating a sacred penis to his mother-in-law! Go figure.

You can't figure. It doesn't make sense—to us. It did make sense to the ancients. That's the point. Ancient culture was different from ours in ways we would never predict and can't understand.

Keep that in mind while we talk about ancient religion. In fact, ancient religion was so different from ours, I've included a couple pages [Ancient Religion for Dummies and Ancient Religion Syncretism ] to get you up to speed on things you'll want to know help you understand Christianity's Pagan Origins.

Answer 8

Well, it's all really based on theories, ideas, and politics. We can't very well go back in time and prove the things that happened, so we reconstruct things as best we can. Of course, everyone has different opinions and interprets the facts differently. Hence the disagreement.

Answer 9

It did start in Mesopotamia based on evidence found in that area. I would not use wikipedia as a source for something like this, as you can go in and alter what it says.

As time went on populations spread to the surrounding areas; including Africa, Asia, and Europe. You're best learning about this from a history book and museum rather than wikipedia. Good luck!

Answer 10

Well, depends on if you believe in the Bible also. Archeology has support that the beginning of civilization (ie Adam and Eve) began in Mesopotamia also.