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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 mouflon was the next target of the clever agrarians of the Fertile Crescent.
As people in the Fertile Crescent harvested wheat, they tended to collect more of the grains that were firmly attached to the stem than the loose ones.
The cities of the Fertile Crescent built in mud brick and used stone, copper, and bronze tools.
The genetic ancestors of today's wheat can still be found in the Fertile Crescent and are still used for breeding experiments.
The traditional view holds that it happened around 6000 B. C. in the Fertile Crescent.
Such was the life style in the Fertile Crescent, and, not coincidentally, the Old Testament is fixated on genealogy.

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