Answer: North-eastern Africa + Near East. A space between Egypt and Mesopotamia. First civilizations were born there, it was there were (probably) agricultural revolution started, where first writing were invented. The first civilized people we are able to identify there are Sumerians and pre-Sumerians (in spite of that we do not know many things about them).
Explanation: territories of today´s Egypt, Izrael, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordania, Iraq and partly Turkey.
He referred to the fact that simply baptism of salvation of Christ did not change the acts of people, but that the real act of salvation is dedication to the religious and social movement.