Fertile Crescent

In Southwest Asia, there is a large band of fertile land called the Fertile Crescent. It curves between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Within the Fertile Crescent are two rivers: the Tigris and Euphrates. Both these rivers begin in present day Turkey and flow south through Iraq to the Persian Gulf. The land between these two rivers is called Mesopotamia, which in Greek literally means “between the rivers.” The conditions in this land helped bring about the rise of the world’s first…

Rome. September 26, 2016. http://quatr.us/romans/economy/. 10/13/16.). The Persian Empire had a vast trade system that was an extremely important part of their economy (“Trade in the Persian Empire.” Google Sites. sites.google.com/a/iolani.org/fertile-crescent/geography-and-trade/persian-empire/trade-in-the-persian-empire.). Trading with other lands provided them with great wealth (“Trade in the Persian Empire.” Google Sites.…

Empire would have a long life because of the efforts of Darius. The Persian Empire had a great impact on the region and its people. Cyrus ruled through fear and tolerance. Once people were conquered, he showed them much generosity.After conquering Fertile Crescent lands, he freed the Hebrew people from Babylonian rule. Cyrus’ tolerant approach toward different religions also gained him much support. Because of this, his subjects seldom revolted and usually lived in peace. This made governing the…

The rich, fertile soil of the Middle East led early civilizations to settle, domesticate plants and animals, and thrive. The Fertile Crescent between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers known as Mesopotamia (now modern Iraq, and extending north into Syria and Turkey) was the home of the world’s first urban culture, the Sumerians, 6,000 years ago. The Sumerians’ Egyptian rivals took advantage of the annual flooding of the Nile for their regular harvest, later exporting a large portion of their…

There are two different beliefs about what force drives the human-environment relationship and how humans are affected by this relationship: some believe that humans are the driving force and others believe the environment is in control of human actions. Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel believes that the environment determines the course of human history. William Cronon, author of Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, believes that humans have shaped the…

The first advantage is the perfect climate that the Fertile Crescent has. Another advantage of the fertile crescent is that is was already abundant in crops that were highly productive. The final advantage of the Fertile Crescent is that it was one of the first sights that developed writing. Jared Diamond explains that it was europe spreading culture rather than Southeast Asia by stating…

deficit of food and calories. The people of Papua New Guinea were unable to develop very much because they didn’t have the time to focus on developing. They were busy hunting and gathering trying to get enough food to meet their human needs! The Fertile Crescent on the other hand, is located in a semiarid region in the Middle East. The region is around thirty-five degrees North of the Equator. The primary food…

Prehistory. Literally meaning before history, the time before written records; but yet prehistory has just as many stories to tell that cannot be found in any high school textbook. These stories can be very important stories that can change how we believe humans created civilization. Standard theory suggests that humanity's progress toward civilization started in prehistory with farming. Once prehistoric humans discovered farming, they were able to settle down and get their food from farming.…

The first agricultural revolution occurred around 11,000 B.C. Evidence shows that it began in the Middle East, specifically in the Fertile Crescent. The Fertile Crescent includes countries such as Mesopotamia (now formally known as Iraq), Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and the Nile River Basin in Egypt. There is also evidence that there were other agricultural revolutions around the world, not just in the Middle East during the same time period as the other ones. These revolutions also occurred in…

professor, explains on the TV program Guns, Germs, and Steel, that it is due to geographic luck. Geographic luck is the term used to describe the phenomenon of the fact that people in some areas are just luckier than others. For instance, the Fertile Crescent got nutritious wheat and barley while Papua New Guinea got sago palm. However, Professor Diamond has the right idea. Geographic luck shaped the path to European dominance. Firstly, farming, which played a huge role in Europe, came through…