What is the Fertile Crescent?

Answer 1

When the two rivers flood (Euphrates & Tigris) it makes the soil rich and soft and it makes the crops grow better. I hope that helps!
Fertile crescent attracted Sumerians because of their fertile soil. It contained one plain known as Mesopotamia, meaning in Greek "land between the rivers''.

Answer 2

When the two rivers flood (Euphrates & Tigris) it makes the soil rich and soft and it makes the crops grow better. I hope that helps!
Fertile crescent attracted Sumerians because of their fertile soil. It contained one plain known as Mesopotamia, meaning in Greek "land between the rivers''.

Answer 3

The Fertile Crescent is located in the Syrian desert and goes all the way to the South Persian Gulf.

Answer 4

The fertile crescent is a nickname for Mesopotamia and the Jordan River valley. Fertile means wet and crescent is a little thinner than half moon.There is another nickname for Mesopotamia: the land between the rivers. This a true statement too because there are two rivers surrounding it. The main rivers in the Fertile Crescent are the Euphrates River, the Tigris River, and the Jordan River.
The "Fertile Crescent" included the arable river valleys that ran from Africa to the Persian Gulf in Western Asia. It is sometimes extended westward to include Egypt, and contained Palestine, Canaan, Phoenicia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia (Babylon). These areas were home to the earliest civilizations of the Mediterranean and Middle East.

The "crescent" curved over the Syrian Desert, one of the few areas that did not support the African/Eurasian biodiversity of the region.

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Answer 5

The Fertile Crescent was the tract of land through the Middle East in which civilisation developed over a couple of thousand years. If you think civilisation is bad, yes. If you think is is good, then it had good aspects, while acknowledging the evil aspects which also emerged in wars and slavery.

Answer 6

The Fertile Crescent is located in the Syrian desert and goes all the way to the South Persian Gulf.

Answer 7

The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region that contains the moist and fertile land of Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta of northeast Africa.