Why would Africa be the 'cradle of civilization'?
Is it because of the countries bordering the Mediterranean? Because Africa seems to be barren and devoid of civilization until the last 200 years....
Why does culture get so much more developed in Europe and North West Asia?
Why does cilture develop so much better in Europe if civilization started in Africa?
Looks like they forgot more than they learned.....
Middle east too....I don't believe it was down their either.....too many wars.... Too much crazy.
Any further information to look into this?
The out of Africa theory has pretty well fallen apart over the last 20 years. The theory that makes sense to me is that the cataclysmic event that caused the Younger Dryas period at the end of the last ice age affected the whole earth, but affected Africa the least. That is why megafauna in North America and Europe were largely wiped out at this time, but African megafauna remain today. So it only appears that humans and culture came from Africa and the mideast, but in reality they were just the most intact civilizations after the last ice age.