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What does the term Fertile Crescent mean?
The fertile crescent is a nickname for Mesopotamia. Fertile means wet and crescent is a little thinner than half moon. There is another nickname for it due to the fact that it is the land between the rivers. This a true statement too because there are two rivers surrounding it they are the Euphrates river and the Tigris river and the Jordan River.
What year did Cyrus the great create the cylinder?
The year is unknown. It dates from the second half of the 6th Century BCE.
Who Conquered the Medes and established the Persian Empire?
Cyrus II (a.k.a. Cyrus the Great)
Who built the Persian Empire?
Cyrus the Great.King Cyrus the Great.
Which Persian ruler gained the most land?
Cyrus, or Cyrus The Great.
What did Cyrus the Great establish in the Fertile Crescent?
The Persian Empire.
Why do you think the areas within the fertile Crescent was important to groups like the Hittites?
The fertile crescent was rich in biodiversity, with great agricultural potential, as well as geographically strategic
Why do you think control of the areas within Fertile Crescent was important to groups like the Hittites?
The fertile crescent was rich in biodiversity, with great agricultural potential, as well as geographically strategic
Why do you think control of the areas within the fertile crescent was important to the groups like Hittites?
The fertile crescent was rich in biodiversity, with great agricultural potential, as well as geographically strategic
What is the area between the two great rivers in mesopotamia called?
The fertile crescent
What reflects the chronological order of empires in and around the fertile crescent from first to last?
MesopotamiaSumeriansSargon the Great and the Akkadian EmpireAssyrian EmpireThe PhoeniciansThe ChaldeansThe Persian Empire: Cyrus the GreatThe ScythiansThe Persian Empire: DariusThe Persian WarEnd of the Persian Empire
What was great about the Fertile Crescent?
because it has lots of crops and grains and that the land is fertile which is good to grow on and it is a major farming area
Who ruled after the Assyrians in the Fertile Crescent?
After the Assyrians, the Neo-Babylonian Empire, also known as the Chaldean Empire, rose to power in the Fertile Crescent. This empire reached its peak under King Nebuchadnezzar II, who is famous for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the conquest of Jerusalem. The Neo-Babylonian Empire eventually fell to the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE.
What kind of people lived in the fertile crescent?
Mesopotamians,slaves, Kings,And great emperers
What is the region shaded in green on the map above known as?
the Fertile Crescent
Why is it that the Fertile Crescent in Africa called fertile?
The fertile crescent was called 'fertile' because around 2000 BCE there was fertile soil that was great for farming. new soil called silt was brought over regularly by floods. This fertility later on helped grow the early cities that lived there. It is worh noting that the Fertile Crescent is entirely in Southwest Asia, not Africa. It is in the current countries of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Jordan.
What is a huge arc of land that extends from Eastern end of the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf?
fertile crescent
