Fertile Crescent

noun

an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq.
an area in the Middle East: formerly fertile, now partly desert.

Origin of Fertile Crescent

First recorded in 1910–15

Words Nearby Fertile Crescent

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How to use Fertile Crescent in a sentence

Ancient Fertile Crescent communities periodically gave farming a go while still hunting, foraging, fishing and trading.
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Cities like Pompeii and Petra, Heliopolis in Egypt and Ayutthaya in Thailand, Ur and Jericho and Babylon in the Fertile Crescent.
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The cities of the Fertile Crescent built in mud brick and used stone, copper, and bronze tools.
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British Dictionary definitions for Fertile Crescent

Fertile Crescent

noun

an area of fertile land in the Middle East, extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates in a semicircle from Israel to the Persian Gulf, where the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Hebrew civilizations flourished

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