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Regarded as the birthplace of agriculture, the Fertile Crescent was the region located in the Near East, watered by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which included what is today the country of Iraq. Traditionally associated (in Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths) with the earthly location of the Garden of Eden, the Fertile Crescent region boasted unusually fertile soil and produced healthy harvests which furthered early (especially Christian) belief in the area as 'blessed by God’ and present day Muslim conviction of the same.

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  • The Sumerians of Mesopotamia: One of the world's earliest and most influential civilizations

    The peoples of Sumer are among the earliest denizens of Mesopotamia. By about 4000 B.C., the Sumerians had organized themselves into several city-states that were spread throughout the southern part of the region. These city-states were independent of one another and were fully self-reliant centers, each surrounding a temple that was dedicated to god or goddess specific to that city-state. Each city-state was governed by a priest king.
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  • Agriculture in the Fertile Crescent

    The ancient Near East, and the Fertile Crescent in particular, is generally seen as the birthplace of agriculture. In the fourth millennium BC this area was more temperate than it is today, and it was blessed with fertile soil, two great rivers (the Euphrates and the Tigris), as well as hills and mountains to the north.
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