What areas of the world did not have early civilization and why

It’s extremely difficult to answer a historical question that’s asked in the negative —that is to say that we don’t know what we don’t know, so to speak.

In short, we probably don’t know. What we are pretty sure of is where civilization started. It’s a region called The Fertile Crescent, and it makes a crescent shape starting from North Africa and then following the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea, then moving East to encompass the great rivers Tigres and Euphrates.

It is entirely possible we haven’t discovered every major civilizations location, due to a number of things ranging from it being “built over” to natural disasters or a simple lack of luck.

What we can relatively identify is the path of human migration from Africa.

It is safe to say that civilizations could exist anywhere humans have traveled.

Chances are, they probably stopped in places that were decent enough to live and was somewhat near these routes. Antarctica and Polynesia are good examples, as humans reached those at far later times (the first humans are estimated to have entered Polynesia around and after the crowning of Charlemagne in 800). The Sahara would at first seem like an obvious choice, but in Ancient Times, there is evidence and records of its desertification, suggesting it was actually a grassy steppe like Mongolia before. The Egyptians and other civilizations felt the burden of the peoples who lived there as they left to find other homes in Africa or beyond.

The only places our stubbornness would not succeed were in places far too hot or cold with little way to survive off the land or places we did not know exist (not that we wouldn’t try to search for them).

1 > george s. boutwell

2 > general ulysses s. grant

3 > james a. garfeild

4 > adolph e. borie