Made this map for my niece's 12 birthday, she is an aspiring archaeologist, and young people into history is a good thing.

This is a rough rendition but a rough overview of the six primary cradles of Civilization: Norte Chico, Olmec, Sumer, Egypt, Harappan/Indus River, and Ancient China or Yellow River Civilization.

Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you.

QR Code page is pending, I do have a bibliography of my sources upon request. But a majority of the information came from

• Mieroop, Marc Van de. A History of Ancient Egypt. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
• Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.
• Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
• Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. New York: Harper, 2015.
• McNeill, William H. A World History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Oppenheim, A. Leo. Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization. Revised ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
• Scheidel, Walter. Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
• Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settling of North America. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.
• Among a slew of web sources, I am still formatting.