Listen, if you don't know the roots of civilization, I can't help. I can assure it is not Africa. We fell out of tree in Africa and got the hell out, then came back, still with no civilization, no agriclure, maybe not even a voice box yet. Then left again spread east and north, still no civilization.
I know everyone is very light on self education and they teach bullshit at school, if this the judge.
Do you not know of the Peloponnesian Wars? (over by 404 bce) Don't you know that these two combants, Sparta and Athens, then banded together against Persia. The 300 Spartans? The dividing line between Eastern and Western civilizations, is there, because of the Hot Gates, Thermopoli?
And then Rome kicked the snot out of them and everyone else, and that is us? Western Civilization?
Damn, dude, the only civilization in Africa to this day is Western import.