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Fertile Crescent

Region of the Middle East stretching from the Gulf to the Nile Valley, and including the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The name comes from the extensive irrigated cultivation of crops in this area, which in ancient times had a more moderate climate suitable for agriculture. It gave rise to the earliest human culture (dating from around 8000 BC) and was the birthplace of several ancient empires, including those of Sumer, Assyria, and Persia.

The term ‘Fertile Crescent’ was made popular by the eminent US scholar of the Middle East, James Henry Breasted.
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Remember ladies, "Good, strong knickers underneath your nightgown will inhibit access to the fertile crescent.
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A report published last year in Japan has warned that what is known as the Fertile Crescent will lose any traces of fertility before the end of the century, with the deterioration of water supply from the Euphrates and the Tigris.
Climate change: challenge of tomorrow, solution for today by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
According to a report in New Scientist, the death knell for the Fertile Crescent has been rung as Turkish dams reduce the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a trickle, farmers abandon their desiccated fields across Iraq and Syria, and efforts to revive the Mesopotamian marshes appear to be abandoned.
Mesopotamia's 'Fertile Crescent' may disappear this century by Asian News International
 
 
 
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