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Fertile Crescent
Sign in to savecrescent-shaped geographic region of the Middle-East, containing the moist and fertile land of Western Asia, and the Nile Valley and Nile Delta of northeast Africa
The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East that includes the moist, fertile lands of Western Asia and northeastern Africa's Nile Valley and Delta. It matters because this area's natural abundance of water and arable land made it a center for early human civilization and development.
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Map of the Fertile Crescent A 15th century copy of Ptolemy's fourth Asian map, depicting the area known as the Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent (Arabic: الهلال الخصيب al-hilāl al-ḵaṣīb) is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, together with northern Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey, and western Iran. Some authors also include Cyprus and northern Egypt.
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