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What does Fertile Crescent mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (historical) A crescent-shaped strip of fertile land stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey and down the Syrian and Israeli coasts.
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The genetic ancestors of today's wheat can still be found in the Fertile Crescent and are still used for breeding experiments.
The cities of the Fertile Crescent built in mud brick and used stone, copper, and bronze tools.
Such was the life style in the Fertile Crescent, and, not coincidentally, the Old Testament is fixated on genealogy.
The traditional view holds that it happened around 6000 B. C. in the Fertile Crescent.
Any examination of Yali's question must address the phenomena of the Fertile Crescent.
Most of the 48 million people living in the Fertile Crescent are farmers whose dryland cultivation practices have withstood the test of time.

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