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Fertile Crescent

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region of the Middle East extending from the Levant across the northern part of the Syrian Desert to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Climatic and ecological conditions in the Fertile Crescent favored the Neolithic development of agriculture, eventually giving rise to such civilizations as Sumer, Egypt, Babylonia, and Phoenicia.

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  • proper noun A crescent-shaped strip of fertile land stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey and down the Syrian and Israeli coasts.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

Etymologies

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Coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted.

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Examples

  • Nothing against Detroit and Gary, but Palestinians have an agrarian history (it wasn't called the Fertile Crescent because you couldn't grow anything) and would prefer California.

    Amjad Atallah: Huckabee Offers Palestinians State "Some Place Else" 2009

  • The Mesopotamian part of this ecoregion falls within what is referred to as the Fertile Crescent, an area of valuable agricultural land that supported some of the earliest human civilizations.

    Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests 2008

  • Did you know that south central Iraq is in what was know as the Fertile Crescent, the land lying in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

    Giving Over an Ancient Farmland to Heroin Production Ellen Beth Gill 2008

  • Hasn't it been called the Fertile Crescent, the primordial uterus from which the human race emerged?

    Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

  • For Diamond, the big breakthrough occurred in the so-called Fertile Crescent, an area ranging from Southeastern Turkey to Western Iran.

    Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist 2009

  • Slide 5: Wild Ancestors of Domesticates The Fertile Crescent was the natural habitat of  Wild ancestors of domesticated plants  Wheat -- Legumes (peas and beans)  Barley  Wild ancestors of domesticated animals  Cattle -- Pigs  Sheep -- Goats

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • We are tired, "said Mr. Hamed, who owns a shop called Fertile Crescent in Brooklyn.

    Muslims in New York Still Feel Vulnerable 2010

  • Society’s new address was the Middle East, specifically Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Sumeria, and Egypt—the area known as the Fertile Crescent and its outlying regions.

    Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

  • Society’s new address was the Middle East, specifically Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Sumeria, and Egypt—the area known as the Fertile Crescent and its outlying regions.

    Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

  • Alexander instead followed patriarchs and kings throughout history by taking an arching route along the Fertile Crescent north beneath the mountains of Lebanon, then east across the highlands of Assyria, and finally south along the Tigris and Euphrates to Babylon.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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