The Birth of Civilization

The birth of early civilization occurred along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt, the

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia, the Indus River in India and the The

Yellow River in China beginning around 3000BC. This happened in the above four

places over the course of about a thousand years. The rich soils of these riverbeds

provided the fertile environment necessary to allow early humans to abandon their

nomadic lifestyles and settle in one area. As these people settled they developed

communities which evolved into cities and these early cities gave rise to the developmen...