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Bringing civilisation to the savage continent of Europe (hexbear.net)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_civilization

Scholars generally acknowledge six cradles of civilization: Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient India and Ancient China, the Caral–Supe civilization of coastal Peru and the Olmec civilization of Mexico.

Six cradles of civilisation: one in the Middle East, one in Africa, two in Asia, two in America

Thank the gods we were ultimately able to uplift the savage Europeans and bring them the boons of civilisation!

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[–] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

I HATE THE LINEARBANDKERAMIKS I HATE THE TREEKILLERS AND THEIR MESOPOTAMIAN BACKERS I MISS THE MESOLITHIC FORESTS AND HUNTERGATHERERS

But yeah, the wikipedia page is missing a few so and its actually around 10-15 cradles of agriculture, none in Europe

Closest would be the proto-indoeuropeans domestication of horses and proto-uralic's domestication of reindeers, but those were both the results of copying and adapting agricultural methods of their neighbours, so really truly independent cradles of the invention of agriculture

Though, to play devils advocate, its plausible that the early Europeans had developed fishfarming of some kind; pre-~4,000 Europe has a lotta question marks around it bc of the sea level changes (southern Sumeria by the Gulf has the same issue facing archaeological investigations)