Fertile Crescent Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
crescent-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
About Fertile Crescent
This area has been inhabited since distant prehistoric times; all the groups of prehistoric humans that migratedout of Africapassed through this region. Later it was one of the cradles of civilisation. TheNeolithic Revolution—when agriculture was first developed and people settled near their crops—took place in this region starting around 10,000 BCE. It was a set of crops and animals first domesticated here—barley, wheat, cattle, sheep and others—that brought agriculture to other areas. In ancient times these crops spread west to Egypt, North Africa and Europe and east to Persia and the Indian subcontinent; later they spread around the world. It is thought that the crop domestication took place mainly in the hilly flanks, where there is more rain and the wild ancestors of the crops are fou
Fertile Crescent Travel Guide Sections
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