did the europeans establish early civilizations?

Although it is well established that the Indic civilization, c. 3000 BC, with its rigid caste system based on color owed much to a white Aryan invasion from Europe - probably Germanic - that forced the darker people to flee to southern India, little is known about the earlier Egyptiac and Sumeric civilizations that had 'spontaneous' derivations.

Could they have been established by the Europeans, too?

From the art work of the first civilization - the Egyptiac, c. 4000BC - it seems incongruous not only that the ruling class of an African country would be light colored but also that such a civilization would emerge spontaneously out of nothing. From its strategic location - between the black migrant route north via the Nile and the white seafaring trade route south via the Mediterranean Sea, it seems likely that the Egyptiac civilization evolved from a trading centre, especially in slaves, established by the Europeans.

Also, it seems even more incongruous that another new civilization, the Sumeric, would emerge spontaneously in Iraq c. 3500 BC and then miraculously invent writing, establish a bi-cameral legislature and give the world its first law codes.

Could it be that a white Germanic tribe migrated south, seeking a warmer climate, and settled in fertile Iraq? In that the Celts invaded Greece and settled in Turkey around 3 BC - becoming the Galatians - it is not so farfetched that earlier tribes from northern Europe were involved in a similar reverse type migration. We give far too much attention to the initial migrations north out of Africa and not enough to the later migrations south out of Europe.

Apart from an agricultural site discovered at Nineveh, c. 9000 BC - which may have been established by early migrants from Europe - absolutely nothing of human cultural significance was found in Iraq before the Sumerian civilization of c. 3500 BC. And the same goes for the Egyptiac civilization.

It is true that the earliest homo sapiens neanderthalensis burial site, c. 60,000 BC, was found at the Shanidar cave, northern Iraq, but compared to the impressive cultural human record found in Europe, before the recession of the Ice Age, it is difficult to see how the inhabitants of Sumer (or even Egypt) could have developed a new civilization out of nothing.

The European cultural human record is as follows:

• 400,000 BC - the first Homo Sapiens, modern man, was living in Europe
  (discovered in Kent, UK);
  

• 400,000 BC - the oldest buildings, 21 huts, discovered in Nice, France, belonging to the Acheulian culture;
  
  
• 350,000 BC - the oldest example of art - geometric engravings on bone - were found at Bilzingsleben, near Erfurt, Germany;
  
  
• 110,000 BC - the earliest evidence of mining, ochre for clay and ferric oxide, discovered
  in Belgium;
  
  
• 12,000 BC - the earliest known evidence of deity worship was a shrine found in northern Spain, in the El Juyu cave;
  
  
• Also, in that the megalithic monument of Stonehenge - the 11.5 ha stone circles supposedly built by the Druids in Wiltshire, England, for astronomical purposes - dates from 4200 BC, it pre-dates the Egyptian pyramids of 2650 BC by 1,550 years.

Without any evidence of human cultural significance existing in either Egypt or Sumer prior to the recession of the Ice Age in 12,000 BC, it seems likely that it was the more advanced Europeans - not the indigenous populations (whom they reduced to slavery) - who founded the three earliest civilizations after they had migrated south when the ice melted.

Of the European tribes at the time of the first civilizations, the fierce Aryan invaders - probably Germanic - who established the Indic civilization are likely to have established the Egyptiac and Sumeric civilizations, too.

why did civilization take ages to develop?

A leisured class - one capable of developing the trappings of civilization - can only develop when basic needs of shelter, sustenance and protection are met by a large working class (usually slaves). Also, no great civilization can develop without a locus, a strategic place to settle with fertile soil, a good water supply and a pleasant climate.

When the Mediterranean seafarers landed in Egypt thousands of years ago, they found all that they needed plus an abundance of docile African nomadic hunters and gatherers who were easy to enslave.

Civilization was unable to develop early in Europe because the Ice Age isolated the tribes and when they did meet they were incredibly hostile to each other. When all of your time is spent providing for shelter, sustenance and protection for yourself and family, there is no time left to do anything else.

Migrating south, to a warmer climate, was possible at the end of the Ice Age, and whereas our very first ancestors trekked north by foot - following the animals they hunted - our later ancestors used boats to migrate south via the Mediterranean and lived off fish.

Egypt was the garden of Eden for the early settlers from Europe. No wonder they didn't want to leave! Agriculture developed quickly through the use of slaves, as did the building of solid structures.

Trade in slaves and excess food enriched the developing Egyptiac civilization to such an extent that the leisured class, the masters, were able to establish incredibly wealthy dynasties around which a middle class of artisans and courtiers quickly developed.

The pattern set by the early settlers in Egypt was to be followed century after century by new waves of colonizers in other lands who either enslaved the indigenous populations or took their own slaves with them.