What geographic advantage led to early civilization? Where did the earliest civilizations rise?
Actually water is technically your answer on both accounts. Before civilizations rose, most people were nomads and traveled often from one place to the next. But a consistent source of water, like rivers, is where most early society’s like the Egyptians, who settled on the Nile, began their journey to civilization. It allowed for farming which helped to allow for the start of cities which soon grew into vast empires. Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq, is called the cradle of civilization because it is where the earliest society’s rose. It spawned the Babylonian, Sumerian and Assyrian empires, all ancient and powerful civilizations.
