Why did the middle east (Egypt, Mesopotamia) develop advanced civilization before anyone else?

>before anyone else

False. Civilazations in West Africa, China, the Mediterranean, and in various locations of the Americas had developed at more or less the same time.

Fairly mild climate, fertile soil and rivers, lots of naturally growing cereal grasses, decent protective boundaries.

A prerequisite to the development of agriculture seems to be the preexisting presence of naturally growing high yield crops. Local hunter-gatherer groups find places so abundant in food that they can settle down. Then they find it in their best interests to actively promote the growth of the local food plants. Voila, agriculture.

The earliest agricultural societies occurred in river valleys. Lots of fresh water and fertile soil promotes the high density crop growth necessary for the preexisting condition. Crops with the highest yields are grains and to a less extent root vegetables like potatoes.

Civilization arose in fertile river valleys with mild climates and lots of naturally growing high yield crops.

>Veeky Forums talks about Mesopotamia's height of civilization
>they had fertile land
>Veeky Forums talks about Africa's lack of civilization
>THEY'RE ALL LOW IQ NIGGERS REEEEE

>environment defines language
>language defines cognition
>cognition defines thought
>thought defines intelligence

>africa has a shit environment
>shit environment leads to...
:^)

Well meme'd but there are enough known factors that together explain why Black Africa was less developped than eurasia that don't involve intelligence

What about Iran?

>There are also 10,000-year-old human and animal figurines from Tepe Sarab in Kermanshah Province among many other ancient artifacts.[14] Early agricultural communities such as Chogha Golan in 10,000 BC[17][18] along with settlements such as Chogha Bonut (the earliest village in Elam) in 8000 BC

Africans ARE dumber than europeans though. Its just not primarily genetic

>all of Veeky Forums is one person

You mean people in Africa score lower on IQ tests yes that is true(but Iraqis also score significantly lower than people from developped countries, so there's that), it is irrelevant however to the discussion about why black africa was underdevelopped compared to eurasia and north africa

God created us there.

But it is genetic. Blacks underperform on iq regardless where they're from or how they grew up.

Not true

psycnet.apa.org/journals/dev/22/3/317/

Minnesota transracial study disagrees. Blacks are inferior genetically deal with it.

You seem to be dodging giving your source with saying 'deal with it', scared that we'll evaluate it?

>Inferior genetically
You're marking intelligence as the only factor to racial evaluation? How about the fact that blacks tend to do better in sports and physical activities?

Plus, black iq would shoot up at most 15-20 points if they had a stronger school infustructure. Look at the Middle East, the gulf countries are all well developed with far stronger teaching insitutions than Africs, yet their iq is borderline retard level, which is due to inbreeding. If Africa had first world learning they wouldn't be as stupid now.

You're also probably going to bring up blacks in America and why they perform so badly despite a more than adequate educational system compared to Africa. That is a result of culture. In reality, blacl culture in America. is very anti intellectual and discourages doing well in school and actually having to think for yourself. This is very much true because Nigerian immigrants are some of the most well educated groups because they come from a culture that assert good learning values, and no, I'm not saying that they have white iq, but just that they aren't nearly as retarded as African Americans due to culture and not the same as their own in Nigeria due to having an good educational system outsourced to them to use.

flood plains, nearby wheat and goats

great native grains and domestic animals too
>more or less the same time.
give or take a millennium or two in some cases

Environmental pressures

>Plus, black iq would shoot up at most 15-20 points if they had a stronger school infustructure.
Did you not even read a summary of the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study? Blacks adopted by rich whites and sent to nice schools still end up dumber.

>black people would perform the same except they don't
This is how you sound like right now. Also culture doesn't form in a vacuum. It's no surprise people incapable of intellectual pursuits will form a culture that shuns intellectual achievement.

This could easily be an effect of the present US stereotypes and culture surrounding blacks, blacks might still be pushed into acting like a black person by their classmates

Yes. The difference is that culture is actually malleable.

You people always have some excuse.
If their black classmates are going to a nice school, presumably sons of affluent parents, shouldn't they be equal to whites?

Peer pressure and self image are valid factors user even if you don't like it

>Equal to whites
No one said that. Because of genetics, blacks will never reach white iq, hence why it's such a huge factor. Culture is one too and because of that, blacks can get out of the retard threshold.

It's theoretically possible people treated them differently in a way that had a statistically significant impact on their intelligence, though I doubt it.
Bit since it's a psychological study not done in the last decade it's discredited and its paradigms are outdated

Yep, and which i why whites will never reach Jewish IQ levels, jews are just genetically superior which is why christians awlays envied them and their achievments.

Jared diamond pls go

By this logic, the middle east should have the most advanced people on earth.

I don't have the study, but simply asking for a racial identity noticeably changes SAT scoring.

It's cultural, not genetic. Haven't we mapped the human genome? Someone wake me up when we find the nigger gene.