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Why was the area between the Mediterranean sea and the Persian gulf called the Fertile Crescent?
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What is the land between the Persian gulf and mediterranean sea?
Fertile Crescent.
What part of the are between the Persian gulf and the mediterranean sea differs from the surrounding territory in the richness of its land?
Fertile Crescent
Are Mesopotamia and The Fertile Crescent the same thing?
Mesopotamia is the area between the Euphrates and the Tigris. It literally means 'between the rivers'. The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped area that stretches from the Mediterranean coast along the Euphrates and the Tigris to the Persian Gulf.
What is the a large fertile area of west Asia stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf?
The Fertile Crescent, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. It used to be called Mesopotamia.
What is arc of land that fall between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean sea in southwest aisa called?
Americans refer to this as the Fertile crescent. -I have never heard this term in the Middle East.
The arc of land that fall between the Persian gulf and the mediterranean sea in southwest Asia is called?
Americans refer to this as the Fertile crescent. -I have never heard this term in the Middle East.
What is the arc of land that falls between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea in southwest Asia called?
Americans refer to this as the Fertile crescent. -I have never heard this term in the Middle East.
What is the arc of rich soil between the mediterranean sea and the persia gulf called?
Fertile crescent
What is the fertile crescent and how is it related to Mesopotamia?
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.
Where did Mesopotamia exist?
Mesopotamia existed in "The Fertile Crescent." Now consisting of Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and the Northwest corner of Egypt, between the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea.
Where did the Mesopotamian civilization develop?
Mesopotamian civilization develped by Egypt(and included some of its land) and between the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf. The civilization was centralized in the fertile cresant between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers because of the fertile land, hence the name 'fertile cresant.
Which is bigger mesopotamia or the Fertile Crescent?
Mesopotamia occupies a third of the fertile crescent, the easternmost third to be exact. It extends from the end of the Persian Gulf up through Syria and then down through Palestine almost to Egypt. It is crescent shaped. There is a desert between the two legs.
