Man's Birthplace/Motherland.

Were the first Humans Black? "It is possible, indeed probable, that they were dark skinned.
Civilization started in the great river valley's of Africa and Asia, in the Fertile Crescent(Mesopotamia aka Modern day Iraq.)"-Black Scholar, Author and Social Historian-Lerone Bennett Jr.

The first recorded form of writing is Mesopotamian cuneiform. It predates Egyptian Hieroglyphics. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. 

4th millennium BC marked the invention of writing and "recorded history." 
The complexity of trade and administration in Mesopotamia outgrew human memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form. 

Mesopotamia(Hebrew equivalent Naharaim) is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, roughly corresponding to modern-day Iraq, Syria and Kuwait, including regions along the Turkish-Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders. 

Archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat determined the link between previously uncategorized clay "tokens", the oldest of which have been found in the Zagros region of Iran as Mesopotamian cuneiform. 

Historically, the ancient city states of Mesopotamia in the fertile crescent are the cradle of civilization. The convergence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers produced rich fertile soil and a supply of water for irrigation. The civilizations that emerged around these rivers are among the earliest known non-nomadic agrarian societies. Because Ubaid,Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylon civilizations all emerged around the Tigris-Euphrates, the theory that Mesopotamia is the cradle of civilization is widely accepted. 

Mesopotamia has been identified as having "inspired some of the most important developments in human history including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, Mathematics, Astronomy and Agriculture." 

Prehistory means literally "before history", from the Latin word for "before," præ, andGreek ιστορία. Human prehistory is the period from the time that behaviorally and anatomically modern humans first appear until the appearance of recorded history following the invention of writing systems. 
Since writing systems were developed after man's creation, the only text that logically explains the origin of man and The Universe is The Bible. 

Many people think Africa is where God created man, but several Biblical passages suggest that man was created near Mesopotamia, in addition to non Biblical evidence. 

"The first mention of the land of Mesopotamia in the Bible is found in Genesis 2:10. 'Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads." The verses after give the names of the rivers as the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Now since the Tigris and the Euphrates have their sources in the mountainous region of southern Turkey, it is usually assumed by theologians today that the Garden of Eden is located in that same area."-Australian Author Roger Waite 

(Revised and improved by me J.Clark 07-07-19.)