It was important because it was fertile. That means you could get a lot of food from the land by farming but also hunting and fishing. Being able to get more food is always important when the alternative is that someone starves.
It was important because it was fertile. That means you could get a lot of food from the land by farming but also hunting and fishing. Being able to get more food is always important when the alternative is that someone starves.
The fertile crescent was rich in biodiversity, with great agricultural potential, as well as geographically strategic
It had fertile land therefore ideal for farming and because it was a crucial land to control during times in conflict.
Well the Fertile Crescent had great farming land so maybe they wanted control for agricultural reasons.
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They could control crops from flood.
The Babylonian Empire , and also Assyrian
Babylonian empire and Amorite Empire
Mesopotamian farmers used canal systems to control dangerous flooding, making their land more productive
Various groups from inside and from outside the area sought to control Mesopotamia (Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Babylon) because of the fertile agricultural land between the rivers. Much of the adjacent geographic areas are comparatively dry.
The Assyrians were expanding their empire from the north and took the northern ten tribes. 120 years later, after Babylon had taken over the Assyrians, it expanded into Egypt, and in the process took over the other two tribes Judah and Benjamin.
They could control crops from flood.
The fertile crescent was rich in biodiversity, with great agricultural potential, as well as geographically strategic
The fertile crescent was rich in biodiversity, with great agricultural potential, as well as geographically strategic
The fertile crescent was rich in biodiversity, with great agricultural potential, as well as geographically strategic
It was important because it was fertile. That means you could get a lot of food from the land by farming but also hunting and fishing. Being able to get more food is always important when the alternative is that someone starves.
The Babylonian Empire , and also Assyrian
Babylonian empire and Amorite Empire
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True - successively the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian and Macedonian Empires.
The Egyptians, Hittites, Assyrians, Damascenes and Babylonians fought over the states of the Levant because it was the corridor that joined Egypt to the Fertile Crescent. Any expansion by Egypt had to go via Palestine, since the Jordanian desert was too hostile until after the domestication of the camel in the first millennium BCE. Similarly, any attempt to attack or contain Egypt required control of the Palestian states.
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Mesopotamian farmers used canal systems to control dangerous flooding, making their land more productive