Who were the first civilized humans?

Question

And how did they suddenly become civilized unlike their primitive ancestors?

Answer 1

By definition "civilization" is the act of living in one place most, if not all, the time. The dichotomy between "civilized or primitive" is totally phony and the terminology of bigotry.

What preceded civilization was the hunter-gatherer societies, then pastoral herding societies.

The latest evidence I've heard of is for the first civilizations being in the vicinity of Turkey/Syria/Northern Iraq about 10,000 years ago. However, there is some evidence I've heard of about permanent settlements in Africa around the same time.

Personally, I think it was a result of hunter-gatherer people looking for ways to make their food supply more predictable, so they invented pastoral herding, then farming and agriculture.

Since women with babies on their hips don't want to have to walk all over everywhere looking for edibles, I think it was women who invented civilization.

I have read theories about Neandertal that claim the women lived a settled life in caves and the men lived separate lives following herds of game animals. When the men had meat they took it to the women and traded food for s*x. Of course, you have to be careful about most theories about Neandertal lifestyles.

Answer 2

How to answer this one? there is no real answer!

   They walked upright, that took thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of years.

   They started using tools to kill for food, for protection, that took the same number of years.

   They started using fire, that took the same amount of time or, using caves for shelters, the same amount of time, hides for coverings against the weather, procreating for the benefit of the tribe or family, again, thousands of years.

  So, you see, nothing happen over night but, slowly. I didn't mention farming, this is when most consider humans have become people, as it were. About 17 to 20 thousand years ago in what is now Turkey and Greese.

Answer 3

It is generally believed they were the Sumerians or Mesopotamians [present day Iraq] who build their cities astride the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, which still exist today.   About 5,000 years ago.   They were the first river valley dwellers [previously man was nomadic hunters, killing as they went along].   They built ziggurats, studied the movement of the stars and eventually built the great Tower of Babel.   They had priests, kings, slaves, etc.   Their famous law code was the Hamurabi code, and their most famous king perhaps was King Nebuchadnezzar, who took the Jews captive - a period known as the Babylonian captivity in the Bible.   About the same time, the Egyptians built their own civilization along the Nile, and the Indians along the Indus River - and the Chinese along the Yellow River [Hwang Ho] ... These were the first four great ancient civilizations.   The Sumerians invented the first known writing script, cuneiform, a pictographic script, and the Egyptians hieroglyphics.  The Chinese, a script based on sound.   The Indians were known for their great granary, the great bath and the first level streets and sanitation system in Mohenjo Daro and Harappa.

Hope that answers your question ...

Answer 4

no one knows they all think they are the civilized ones, i think people gave up on trying and they just believe what they belive if they know its true or not

Answer 5

I have yet to witness it, but I think many tribal, egalitarian societies are far more civilized than what is considered civilized in the western world.

Answer 6

the first civilized human were adam and eve genesis 2v7.they were already civilisedbecause in verse15 God put the man to work in the garden  of eden in genesis 3 verse 9 they even comunicate with God and hide themselves from him.

Answer 7

the earliest agriculture was probably in the middle east in the "futile crescent" but i think that agriculture was independently  discovered like 7 times in different regions the why / how of the switch is a very good question and one i can not answer

Answer 8

Describe civilized please.

Answer 9

That's an unanswerable question because "civilization" is what's known as a fuzzy concept.  Ideas of what makes someone "civilized" vary so much from culture to culture. In mine, we consider people who don't shave to be uncivilized, as well as people who don't take baths every day (I'm Cherokee.)  We thought of the Europeans as being a bit savage because of that.  They thought we were because we didn't wear as many clothes as they did (it was East Tennessee, and it's freaking HOT there in the summer.)  

See how it works?

Answer 10

You're assuming humans are civilized.