a land that is between two rivers
The semicircle of fertile land from the southeast coast of the Mediterranean Sea to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
A crescent-shaped region of the modern Middle East in which the earliest experiments in plant and animal domestication are believed to have occurred; later the location for the earliest known human settlements, villages, cities and civilizations.
The well-watered and fertile arc of land where early civilizations developed and prospered; it extends upward from the Nile valley in the west, through Palestine and Syria, and down the Tigris and Euphrates valleys to the Persian Gulf. See Introduction.
A crescent-shaped region extending from the Mediterranean coast of modern Israel, Lebanon, and Syria, north into the Zagros Mountains and then south toward the Persian Gulf (see Figure 10.4), marked by an abundance of wild cereal grain at the beginning of the Holocene epoch. Not coincidentally, this region is where some of the world’s first domestication of plants took place.
The Fertile Crescent is a historical region in the Middle East incorporating the Levant, Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. The term "Fertile Crescent" was coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted. Currently there are three nations which have direct linkage to the Fertile Crescent: The Ingush, the Chechens, and the Batsbi.
