The Fertile Crescent is an important region in global history. It is located in modern day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt. Today much the area is not productive for farming, but in the past it was a region that was rich in agriculture. It includes the land between the Tigris and Euphrates river and the Nile river valley. Some of the first agricultural societies developed in the Fertile Crescent and later the first civilizations started here. After the Neolithic Revolution transformed life for people in the Fertile Crescent around 11,000 BCE, farming practices spread from here to North Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe.
