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Origin of Civilization

The emergence of the first civilizations in river-valley cradles of the Near East, Egypt, South Asia, China, and the Americas, with urbanization and writing emerging mainly between about 4000 and 3000 BCE

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What time year did civilization begin and what parts of the world where they located

Scholars place the transition from scattered to recognizable “” across a broad span: transformative settlement and monumental activity appears as early as the tenth millennium BCE in parts of the Near...