1. Fertile Crescent - Noun
2. Fertile Crescent - Proper noun
a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
Source: WordNetHistory main Antiquity main Farming methods reached the Nile Valley from the Fertile Crescent region about 5000 BC, and spread to the Maghreb by about 4000 BC. Source: Internet
Agriculture has stayed largely organic for most of its 10,000-year history, from the first Fertile Crescent plots to the plantations of colonial America. Source: Internet
For the first time since the earliest cities emerged in the Fertile Crescent some 6,000 years ago, concentrated urban centers no longer have a monopoly on the economic and cultural connections that make civilizations tick forward. Source: Internet
From there, he moved to Haran in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent, and eventually moved to the land of Canaan to the southwest. Source: Internet
In the Fertile Crescent, the ancient lands watered by the Tigris, Euphrates and Nile rivers, man discovered the secret of agriculture and the domestication of animals. Source: Internet
Later record keeping aids throughout the Fertile Crescent included calculi (clay spheres, cones, etc.) which represented counts of items, probably livestock or grains, sealed in hollow unbaked clay containers. Source: Internet