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.

what was the first civilization?

Evolving spontaneously in the cradle of the Lower Nile sometime around 4000 BC, the Egyptiac civilization of northeast Africa has been recognized as the first civilization, preceding the Sumeric or Sumerian civilization of present day Iraq by about 500 years. Unlike the Sumeric civilization which collapsed c.1700 BC, the Egyptiac civilization lasted for 43 centuries and finally collapsed in 280 AD.

It was the first, the longest running, the most colorful and the most recognizable civilization in terms of monuments and artifacts still existing and still amazing us today.

Egypt was the natural end of the journey for all Africans emigrating from the equatorial rainforest, but it took around 496,000 years - from the earliest fossil remains of man found in northern Africa dated 500,000 BC - for the Egyptiac civilization to develop in 4000 BC (when the world population was c. 120m).

Bearing in mind Egypt's location - providing an easy nexus between the Mediterranean seafaring traders and the hordes of Africans migrating north to find food, just like they do today - it is hardly surprising that the Egyptiac Civilization developed from a thriving slave trade.

But which race founded it?

The last dynasty of the Egyptian rulers - the Ptolemies - were of white Macedonian (Greek) descent, and at some stage before that the rulers were black Nubians, but in the beginning - from depictions of early Egyptian life - its ruling classes appear to be predominantly fair skinned. So, while there is no doubt that we all originally developed from the black descendants of the first migrants out of Equatorial Africa, the first civilization in Egypt was more likely to have been founded by the descendants of those migrants who had traveled furthest - to Europe - where isolation in a cold climate had caused them to evolve very differently from their African ancestors.

In view of the fact that no other place in Africa had developed any sort of civilized life, it seems likely that it was the Mediterranean seafaring people who settled in Egypt - via reverse migration - who initially established the Egyptiac civilization. Breeding with the Africans, these people developed the characteristic Middle Eastern appearance that we see today.

In respect of slavery, the Egyptiac Civilization started a trend that continued throughout all subsequent civilizations - including modern Western Civilization - which begs the question: without slaves, is there civilization?

was arabic civilization founded on islam?

Arabic civilization is often confused with the Syriac and Iranic (later Islamic) civilizations. Both the Arabic and the Iranic (later Islamic) civilizations had roots in the Syriac civilization, but otherwise they were dissimilar.

The Syriac civilization existed from 1200 BC - 970 AD, and - contrary to what one might believe - it was not related to the ancient Sumeric civilization of Iraq that gave to the world, among other things, the invention of writing, and from which the Babylonian (predominantly Jewish) civilization emerged in 1500 BC.

Instead, the Syriac civilization was related to the same Minoan civilization that gave birth to the Hellenic civilization and as such it was more European than Middle Eastern. Arabic civilization existed from 975-1525 in Arabia, Iraq and Syria and it did not adopt Islam, universally, until 1516.

The Iranic (later Islamic) civilization commenced in 1320. It was initially centered in Iran and was related to the Syriac civilization. Unlike Arab civilization, it was based on Islam from the start.The birth of the religion of Islam is dated at 622 with Hegira - the flight of Mohammed to Medina; and although Islam later spread throughout the Middle Eastern nations it was not a distinctive feature of the Arabic civilization from the start.

At the time of the rise of western civilization in 675, neither the Arabic nor the Iranic (later Islamic) civilizations existed. It was, nevertheless, Arabic Islamic elements within the Syriac civilization that clashed with the West between 634-641 - culminating in the conquest of Jerusalem in 638 - and the clash was, of course, related to the different views of two religions, Christianity and Islam, that both owe their roots to Judaism.