Question

TRUE OR FALSE?
The cradle of civilization was in central Europe.

Answer 1

false

Answer 2

Depends on how you define "civilization," doesn't it? If you define it as the advent of agriculture, then no, that happened first in the Middle East. If you mean the domestication of animals, that seems to have happened a little further East, towards the Caspian Sea and India. If you mean just conquering fire, that probably happened in East Africa before H. sapiens pushed out of it. And if, finally, you mean the general governing principles that have mostly taken over the world -- things like individual liberty and civil rights, "one man one vote," universal suffrage, democracy -- then indeed those things are largely drawn from the tribal traditions of Germanic tribes, with a large helping of Roman language and surface features, so central Europe it is.

Answer 3

While I don't disagree with any of the assertions made by Carl_Pham, I would conclude that the answer to the question as stated is "false". The earliest known "civilizations" spawned from Mesopotamia and China. Central European civilization came about much later.