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Multiple cradles of civilization emerged independently of one another. Mesopotamia is one but there's also the Mesoamerican and Andean that developed culture, farming, and domestication independently of any Near East influence.

uh, seriously?

Mesoamerica and Andeans didn't come across the land bridge after LEAVING the fertile crescent? You might want to reread your source documents, friend.

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The earliest signs of a process leading to sedentary culture can be seen in the Levant to as early as 12,000 BC

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the Beringia land bridge was covered by the sea about 11,000 years BC

That's a full 1,000 years for an established sedentary culture to cross in the Americas and begin your so-called independent civilizations.

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Posted by WildManGoose

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Posted on 11/8/19 at 2:24 pm to League Champs

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Mesoamerica and Andeans didn't come across the land bridge after LEAVING the fertile crescent? You might want to reread your source documents, friend.

They crossed in to the Americas as hunters/gatherers, friend.

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That's a full 1,000 years for an established sedentary culture to cross in the Americas and begin your so-called independent civilizations.

You don't see the idiocy of that statement? An "established sedentary culture" by definition was NOT nomadic and would not have crossed into the Americas.

Otherwise, maybe you think agriculture was developed in the fertile crescent then brought to people that had left the area thousands to tens of thousands of years earlier?

Both of those are ridiculous. It's not even controversial to say that those cultures developed and domesticated plants and animals independently of one another.

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