Which country is known as cradle of civilization?

widely beleved to be the Middle East

the fertile crescent an area around the the rivers Euphrates and the Tigris curving around towards the nile delta crossing Iran.Iraq,syria,Jordan Israel and Egypt

ancient civilizations like the babalonians.Assyrians,israelites inhabited the area

also this is where the stories of the Old Testament happened

also thought to be the location of the garden of eden

evidence has also been found of a great flood happening in the aren from soil samples