1.Cradle of Civilization

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Course: World History
1.Cradle of Civilization

1.Cradle of civilization



A cradle of civilization is a location and a culture where civilization was created by mankind independent of other civilizations in other locations. The formation of urban settlements (cities) is the primary characteristic of a society that can be characterised as "civilised". Other characteristics of civilization include a sedentary non-nomadic population, monumental architecture, the existence of social classes and inequality, and the creation of a writing system for communication. The transition from simpler societies to the complex society of a civilization is gradual.


First origin of civilization.

Modern civilizations extend to every continent except Antarctica. 

Most scholars place the earliest cradles of  6 civilizations first emerged.


Located in modern-day Mosopotamia - Iraq , Peru, Mexico,  India, China, Egypt , beginning between approximately 4000 and 3000 B.C.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k68CVL8LCXw

Mesopotamia and Egypt the traveller is brought face to face 



Mesopotamia and Egypt the traveller is brought face to face with what is perhaps the most remarkable phenomenon in the history of our planet—the first origin of civilization. The Indus Valley civilization was probably an offshoot of the same movement of human evolution. The birth of Chinese civilization was certainly later, and seems to have been provoked by influences originating from the earlier civilizations to the west.


Origin of  Civilisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiI51Lcuk3c


Origin of Agriculture 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhzQFIZuNFY


Hunting to Agriculture 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teavjYI9pdM


Out of Africa theory 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGXLPhvOZbo