/lit/ - Literature

>>16153344
You forgot Egypt

>>16153344
Belongs on /his/, but I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the Euphrates (or whichever river would have been running through the region along whatever course).

>>16153344
Little farther north. In the mountains.
I think it was the mushrooms

1. literally warm weather and rivers
2. civilizations from american continent or the far east are totally different, it's just that that place in particular leads to european and middle east cultures after a couple thousand years and that became hegemonic
3. not literature brah

>>16153344
To keep this on thread, read guns germs and steel to see house civilization spread with Beneficial aspects. In the case, during the last ice age; this was the most concentrated population with fertile land. Before that, north Africa was a grassland which helped build the Egyptian population. The real reason we focus on it instead of the same thing happening in East Asia, and else where is because it is the most studied. And the because of the invention of phonetics at around that time, the most preserved. Learning to read will help.

>>16153432
>read guns germs and steel

Not far from the garden of Eden.

>>16153398
Incas Maya's and aztecas are basically early Egypt, but i agree that north American Indigenous were totally different without Europeans arriving they'd have gotten conquered by the mayas or aztercas the same way gauls were conquered by Rome

the rivers allowed agriculture

>>16153393
I wonder if finding those ruins inspired the story of Noah's ark. It's about the right shape, in about the right location, and contains a menagerie of animal carvings.

>>16153956
When will y'all shut your ego off and bend a knee to the Abrahamic revelations?

>>16153432
>Guns, germs, steel
Consider suicide, because for you there is no hope

>>16153344
At one point the Sahara and the Arabian deserts were green and full of vegetation. This was the birthplace of Homo sapiens -- the garden of Eden as it were. As these places dried out, hunter-gatherers were pushed east and north, into the river valleys. The rest is history.

>>16153995
Pardon?

>>16153393
the early Sumerian city states constitute the earliest civilization

>>16153956
They found them in the 1990s. The floods that region had/has didn’t actually wash a boat up onto the mountains, but the idea that that’s where their ancestors came from fits fine. It was 10,000 years ago though

>>16153344
Why don’t you find out for yourself and download this. Mesopotamia fascinating and Echos of its civilization and traditions are seen in Homer, the Bible, and the rest of the Mediterranean:
http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=0D233ECE6FF1205C9F9A6A762353D20E

>>16154024
That we know of. That we categorize as such.