Cradles of Civilization

Got 100% first time 💪 Peru and Mexico worked for the Americas :)

I did easily. But there are some other maybes that could be on the list... Australia, New Guinea/Indonesia, Nigeria, and there may have been two independent locations in China. Some of this depends on how exactly civilization is defined. Also "the Hilly Flanks" though this overlaps with Mesopotamia. Emergence of civilization around Sudan/Ethiopia may have been indpendent from Egypt or may have been connected... and Egypt and Mesopotamia may have also been linked and not independent.... and there is some evidence that civilization in the Indus Valley was just an offshoot of Mesopotamian civilization.

People will, I only missed Egypt, one of the more obvious ones.

maybe you just didn't get it the first time. I thought of norte chico then no...then aztecs and said mexico. then peru yay

I did, and had 0:52 on the clock

I did, using modern country names though.

I did. How dare you doubt me? It was easy

I did! (I typed, China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mexico and Peru)

I did

Yeah that's another one. It's not about age it's about whether or not civilization arose independent of other civilizations. It's still not known conclusively if civilization developed in the Balkans by itself or if it was the result of migrations out of nearby Asia.

Almost certainly an offshoot of Mesopotamia

The instructions are very clear. You just didn't know the answers.

I have to agree. Quiz felt weird to take. Some of these areas are frequently referred to by their location and some aren't. Eg. you can know Olmecs and type it in and be kind of at a loss for "Mesoamerica."

The estimates I've seen say it took 5,000 - 10,000 years. You don't think you could walk the length of the Americas if you had 5,000 years?

Also the origin of humans and the origins of civilization are very different things. By the time that humans started creating civilization - settling down from their hunter/gatherer lifestyles to practice agriculture and animal husbandry, make pottery and build cities - homo sapiens had already spread out and populated pretty much the entire planet. At least 4-6 separate times, and likely more, those humans spread out over the globe independently (without any outside help or influence) invented agriculture and/or animal husbandry, and thus started civilization. If civilization started in one area (like Iraq), and then from there spread outward to other areas (like Syria, Turkey, and Greece) then we would not call the latter places cradles of civilization. It's difficult to determine where exactly and how exactly this happened, though, as early civilizations typically don't leave behind much evidence of their existence. And agriculture always predates writing.

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