- The Fertile Crescent includes the river valleys of the Nile and of the Tigris and Euphrates.
The region where the ancient civilizations of the Middle East and the Mediterranean area began is known as the Fertile Crescent. It is a roughly crescent-shaped area of land that extended from the Nile River in Egypt northward along the coast of the Arabian Peninsula and then eastward into Asia. - The earliest known cities appeared around the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in an area …
The Fertile Crescent was the setting of Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament of the Bible. It is estimated that early farming and village clusters in the area date to 8000 BC or even earlier. The use of irrigation to provide water for the farming probably followed soon thereafter. The later Greek and Roman civilizations are considered to have descended from the ancient countries of the area. |