According to the Bible mankind had to starting points

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The first when YHWH created the first man and woman in the Garden of Eden. The second the after the global flood when the ark landed in Mesopotamia in the mountains of Ararat. I've heard it said that the Garden of Eden was located in North or East Africa. If that was the case and the first humans were black or dark skinned in Africa would that also mean these same people populated Mesopotamia in ancient times after the global flood?

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May 15, 2016 11:23:33 GMT -5 history91 said:

The first when YHWH created the first man and woman in the Garden of Eden. The second the after the global flood when the ark landed in Mesopotamia in the mountains of Ararat. I've heard it said that the Garden of Eden was located in North or East Africa. If that was the case and the first humans were black or dark skinned in Africa would that also mean these same people populated Mesopotamia in ancient times after the global flood?

Well from a Bibical POV it matches closely to what science have to say on the matter, now the so called garden of Eden is not to be envisioned as some small plot of land no greater than your country relatives back yard, note the four rivers of Eden

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Note the first and second rivers is East Africa one of the cradles of modern humans as well as one of the doors that exited out of Africa through the straits of Bab-el mendeb, this fit nicely with theis post Humans in Southern Arabia 10,000 years earlier than first thought Read more: egyptsearchreloaded.proboards.com/thread/2225/humans-southern-arabia-years-earlier#ixzz48oJ0EyRA

The Sons of Ham.

The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. The sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.” The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. From that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. Mizraim became the father of Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim 14and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from which came the Philistines) and Caphtorim

Btw Shem or the earlier versions of them were also blacks.