Not necessarily the first civilization, but the first people came out of Africa, around 50,000 yrs ago, and migrated all over the world. So yes, we are all the same race, and technically, African in origin. wendy g · 10 years ago.
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A traditional theory of the spread of civilization is that it began in the Fertile Crescent and spread out from there by influence. Scholars more generally now believe that civilizations arose independently at several locations in both hemispheres.
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Africa provides a comprehensive and contigious time line of human development going back at least 7 million years. Africa, which developed the world's oldest human civilization, gave humanity the use of fire a million and half to two million years ago. It is the home of the first tools, astronomy, jewelry, fishing, mathematics, crops, art, use of pigments, cutting and other pointed instruments and animal domestication. In short Africa gave the world human civilization. Millions of years ago human life started in Africa, Australopithecus aphaeresis and Australopithecus africanus and Australopithecus robustus were all key rungs in the development of humanity. These fossils were found in East and South Africa (Azania).
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Cradle of civilization. The cradle of civilization is a term referring to locations where, according to current archaeological data, civilization is understood to have emerged.
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Current thinking is that there was no single cradle, but several civilizations that developed independently, of which the Near Eastern Neolithics, Mesopotamia and Egypt, were the first.
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Scholars have defined civilization using various criteria such as the use of writing, cities, a class-based society, agriculture, animal husbandry, public buildings, metallurgy, and monumental architecture.
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No it didn't. While homo sapiens first occurred in Africa, civilized people first developed their civilizations in the Near East. Points for Africa: the longest continuous civilization was that of ancient Egypt.
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The term cradle of civilization has frequently been applied to a variety of cultures and areas, in particular the Ancient Near Eastern Chalcolithic (Ubaid period) and Fertile Crescent, Ancient India and Ancient China (the predecessor of East Asian Civilization).
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Ok, first of all, whether the first civilization was in Africa or not is not relevant to whether people are African nowadays. My direct ancestors a couple of generations back came from Ireland and Finland, but I am not Irish or Finnish, I'm American.
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I don't think it's known for sure which was a civilization first. However that may also be a moot question because what's considered the first civilization is based only on the available evidence. There may have been earlier ones whose remains have yet to be discovered.
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was africa the first civilization
No, Africa is not the first civilization.