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Hunter-gatherers settled in the Fertile Crescent because of its rich soil, abundance of water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and diverse plant and animal resources for hunting and gathering. The region provided a stable and reliable food source, allowing for the development of permanent settlements and early agriculture.
They nicknamed the swathe of land from Mesopotamia through Syria, Lebanon and Palestine the Fertile Crescent because it was watered by a series of rivers whose waters and silt promoted agriculture, and formed the basis of emerging civilisation.
Hunter-gatherers settled permanently in the Fertile Crescent because the region provided abundant resources such as fertile land for farming, access to water from rivers like the Tigris and Euphrates, and a variety of wild plants and animals for food. This allowed them to transition from a nomadic lifestyle to a settled agricultural way of life.
As far as i know there are three river valley civilization which are indus river valley and indus and tigris river valley.
They settled there so if they where farmers their crops would get water and they had fertile land called silt. they also settled so if they would like to fish or anything like that they can do it.
Nomadic peoples looked for fertile, well watered land to settle on.
Farming first developed in the Fertile Crescent region, which is located in the Middle East. This area includes parts of modern-day countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The Fertile Crescent is often referred to as the "Cradle of Civilization" due to its significance in the development of agriculture and settled societies.
The fertile Crescent is a boomerang-shaped territory from the eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. The best farmlands were between the Tigris and the Eufrates Rivers, people settled down there and started to build an irrigation system so that they could use the annual floodings and the fertile silt that the rivers left behind. This territory was called Mesopotamia - between rivers - by the Greeks.
The land was fertile because of all the silt that entered the ground around the Nile. It had an abundance of crops and vegetation. Also, the shape of the land is was in the form of a crescent: an arc shape. The key elements were the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers which supplied the water which made the fertile land productive and washed down new soil to maintain the fertility.
The ascent of 'civilized' society had much to do with the change from hunting and gathering for food to agriculture. As it happens, the first known people to make that change were Natufian tribes who lived in the area that is now Israel and Lebanon. The sedentary lifestyle, the switch to agriculture and the building of villages and later on of cities spread from there, and into the fertile crescent for the very reason that is WAS fertile and very suitable for agriculture.
Well the first humankind settlements were in the middle east. If u look on a map Egypt is very close to the middle east.