fertile crescent in English

noun

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a crescent-shaped area of fertile land in the Middle East that extends from the eastern Mediterranean coast through the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf. It was the center of the Neolithic development of agriculture (from 7000 bc ), and the cradle of the Assyrian, Sumerian, and Babylonian civilizations.

Use "fertile crescent" in a sentence

1. This herding family has been tending livestock in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent for a century.

2. Amorites Semitic people found throughout the Fertile Crescent of the Near East at the beginning of the second millennium bc

3. Over time, wildcats more tolerant of living in human-dominated environments began to proliferate in villages throughout the Fertile Crescent.

4. S. Southwest, the Maya, the Greenland Norse, Mycenaean Greeks and inhabitants of the Fertile Crescent , the Indus Valley , Great Zimbabwe and Angkor Wat.

5. Agriculture has stayed largely organic for most of its 000-year history, from the first Fertile Crescent plots to the plantations of colonial America.

6. This scenario makes sense, given that all the other domestic animals (except the donkey) and plants were introduced to the Nile Valley from the Fertile Crescent.

7. Middle Eastern history talks about an Aramean nation from the second half of the second millennium B.C.E., a Semitic people living in the Fertile Crescent of the …

8. This relatively recent discovery has upset the conventional view that farming began in the Middle East, in what's called the Fertile Crescent, and from there spread across the world.

9. The Akkadians were Semitic nomads, originating from the Arabian Peninsula, who began to migrate towards the Fertile Crescent at the time of the development of the first Mesopotamian city-states

10. A nearly 700-year-old ivory cat statuette from Israel suggests the cat was a common sight around homes and villages in the Fertile Crescent before its introduction to Egypt.

11. Arab cuisine (Arabic: المطبخ العربي ‎) is the cuisine of the Arabs, defined as the various regional cuisines spanning the Arab world, from the Maghreb to the Fertile Crescent and the Arabian Peninsula

12. The Arameans were a large group of linguistically related entities that played a significant role in the history and culture of the ancient Near East. Their influence and presence spanned the Fertile Crescent.

13. Incorrectly as "Syrians." The Arameans were a group of linguistically related Semitic peoples living in what is today Syria and western Iraq. Their influence and presence spanned the region of the Fertile Crescent

14. Within the past 000 years, societies across the Near East's Fertile Crescent began to use systems of marks to record important trade exchanges as well as pivotal events in the present and the past.

15. The Arameans inhabited the Fertile Crescent (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers) in the 14th century BCE, but did not begin seriously influencing the region until three centuries later, when they began to spread into southern Anatolia and northern Arabia, which were Assyrian territories.