A new genomic study has revealed that Aboriginal Australians are the oldest known civilization on Earth, with ancestries stretching back roughly 75,000 years..
Hunter-gathering was the fist form of human society.
From the earliest days, humans lived together in tribes for protection in numbers.
They relied primarily on wild game for food, and fruits, nuts, and roots supplemented the diet..
Civilizations first appeared in Mesopotamia (what is now Iraq) and later in Egypt.
Civilizations thrived in the Indus Valley by about 2500 B.C.E., in China by about 1500 B.C.E. and in Central America (what is now Mexico) by about 1200 B.C.E.
Civilizations ultimately developed on every continent except Antarctica..
Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, is the first known complex civilization, having developed the first city-states in the 4th millennium BCE.
It was these cities that produced the earliest known form of writing, cuneiform script..
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Mesopotamia, 4000-3500 B.C.Aug 9, 2022.
Depending on your definition of human society, the history of human society could start as recently as 7,000 years ago when we first started to employ agriculture as a primary method of obtaining food and started building large, permanent settlements or as far back as 2,000,000 billion years ago when homo habilis, the .
The earliest civilizations developed between 4000 and 3000 B.C.E., when the rise of agriculture and trade allowed people to have surplus food and economic stability.
Many people no longer had to practice farming, allowing a diverse array of professions and interests to flourish in a relatively confined area..
Ancient Mesopotamia is considered the birthplace of writing and with it, recorded history.
Its people also built the world's first cities and developed the oldest known political and administrative systems, mostly centered in what is now Iraq..
