fertile crescent

     

The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shape region in the Middle East incorporating the Levant, Ancient Mesopotamia, and Ancient Egypt, known as the "Cradle of Civilization." The term "Fertile Crescent" was coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted, around 1900. The region was named the "Fertile Crescent" because of its rich soil and half-moon shape. The Fertile Crescent was divided into 1) the eastern portion, consisting of the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys, called Mesopotamia (land between the rivers), and 2) the western, or Mediterranean, portion.

Trivia about fertile crescent

  • Named for its shape, this region stretches NW from the Persian Gulf, W. to Syria, then S. through Palestine
  • Mesopotamia was part of the region nicknamed this "Crescent"
  • HIstoric nickname for the curved region between the Mediterranean & Mesopotamia
  • Named for its shape by James Breasted, it's the area where civilization was born
  • (Jimmy of Clue Crew shows a map of the Middle East.) In 1914, historian James Breasted coined this 2-word term to describe the agricultural area that extends from the Nile Valley to the Persian Gulf
  • James Breasted gave this"shapely" name to a luxuriant Middle Eastern region of antiquity

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