This is a 7th grade informational text detailing when and where the earliest signs of human civilization occurred according to scholars. While reading, students should cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Students should also determine two or more central ideas in the text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text (License: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License&sa=D&ust=1604862454832000&usg=AOvVaw1qiEvJjb9TGDltdIUbklSv).