The Fertile Crescent is the boomerang-shaped historical region of the Middle East arcing from the Nile Valley through the Levant and Mesopotamia toward the Persian Gulf, encompassing some of the earliest sites of agriculture, animal domestication and urban civilization in human history. Its combination of reliable water sources and fertile alluvial soil in an otherwise arid region made it the setting for the Neolithic Revolution and the rise of the world's first cities and states.
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The Fertile Crescent spans modern-day Jordan among other states.
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Mesopotamia lies within the Tigris-Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
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The Fertile Crescent spans modern-day Syria among other states.
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The Fertile Crescent (Arabic: الهلال الخصيب al-hilāl al-ḵhaṣīb) is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, together with northern Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey, and western Iran.
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within the Tigris-Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
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spanning modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, together with northern Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey, and western Iran.
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spanning modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, together with northern Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey, and western Iran.
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The area has borne the brunt of the tectonic divergence between the African and Arabian plates and the converging Arabian and Eurasian plates, which has made the region a very diverse zone of high snow-covered mountains.
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The Fertile Crescent (Arabic: الهلال الخصيب al-hilāl al-ḵhaṣīb) is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, together with northern Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey, and western Iran.
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