The+Fertile+Crescent

=Fertile Crescent=

The Fertile Crescent is a moon shaped part of the land, near Egypt. It is in Asia near the Mediteranean Sea and Persian Gulf. This is where Mespotamia was located, and it also includes modern day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel in it. The Fertile Cresent is mostly mountains and desert, but some of it was fertile and had good land.

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Around 4000 B.C. Egyptian farm communities were growing along the Nile River in Africa. Another civilization was also developing in a vast region to the northeast. This region, in western Asia was later called the Fertile Crescent. A crescent shape looks like a quarter moon. The name Fertile Crescent reflects the early development of irrigation and urban civilization in the region, especially in Mesopotamia.