It was held for many years to be most likely that the first species of mankind had originated in Asia, perhaps in the region along the southern slopes of the Himalayas. But, it is now generally agreed that the African continent was the birthplace of human race.
 
Hence, the opening of human history must start with showing how creatures whose human and simian characteristics were to a great extent parallel, lived in Africa and gave rise to the first creatures which could be considered human from their bodily characteristics and their ability to shape stone and wood to suit their purposes.

Here, the dawn of culture emerged – the beginning of that enormous creativity; varied materially, intellectually, and spiritually that was achieved by the mind of man as it struggled to resist, dominate, understand, enjoy, and decorate the cruel natural world surrounding him. It will appear that soon after the appearance of man and the beginning of tool-making, a group of human race moved into Eastern Asia, where they established a centre of physical and cultural evolution.

In fact, we will find that from very early times, two great cultural traditions have to appear; one of which appeared in Eastern Asia, the other in Africa, then they met with many and different branches along wide extensive borders including India and Europe. As it was proved often – in later ages – the meeting of contradictory traditions induce useful development and change. Such confrontations shake human communities to realize that it is possible to have methods of manufacture and ways of thinking other than those which they always imagined to be right and inevitable.
 
Thus, with or without violence, civilizations borrow, mix, and sometimes set off into new directions.