like where is it located?
2007-10-16 12:20:39 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The so-called "cradle of civilization" is that part of the world currently known as the Middle East or at least part of it.
Picture a half-moon shape that stretches from the Persian Gulf, where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into the sea, to the Valley of the Nile, encompassing the modern-day countries of Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt, with parts of Iran and Turkey.
The ancient countries that occupied this territory are called the "cradle of civilization" where humanity first began living in cities & developing agriculture instead of nomadic wandering for gathering food.
2007-10-16 12:39:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you mean where the erected man (homo erectus) had first appeared, it is the present days Ethiopia. There has been found 3 million years old fossil of woman called Lucy. Nothing significantly happened until about 100,000 years ago when our ancestors start wondering. British scientists traced human migration by genes and discovered they moved from Ethiopia to the North and split. One group went to West Africa, another went to the East following the coastal to India, and the third North-East to Central Asia. From Central Asia they went North-East toward America (about 10,000 years ago) and toward West toward Europe. From India they continued toward Australia. Now you know:)
2007-10-16 12:36:45 · answer #2 · answered by fernando_007 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED TO BE MESOPOTAMIA.
2007-10-16 12:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by Loren S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋