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The ‘fertile crescent’ is a semi-circle. Surrounded by a ocean, mountains, highlands, and desert. There are rivers and a big neolithic history within.
The Fertile Crescent holds immense historical and cultural importance. Due to its location, in the early development of human civilization. It owes its fertility to several factors, including the presence of the Tigris, Euphrates and Jordan rivers. Which provided water for irrigation, and facilitated the development of early agricultural societies. Its location is modern-day Iraq,…
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Neolithic Mesopotamia is ‘land between rivers’ in greek. It is the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, centered north northwest of Baghdad, in Iraq
Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 BC. It has been identified as having “inspired some of the most important developments in human history”. Including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops, and the development of cursive script. Early mathematics, astronomy, and…