Known as the Cradle of Civilization, the Fertile Crescent is regarded as the birthplace of agriculture, urbanization, writing, trade, science, history and organized religion and was first populated c.
By 9, BCE the cultivation of wild grains and cereals was wide-spread and, by BCE, irrigation of agricultural crops was fully developed. By BCE the cultivation of wool-bearing sheep was practiced widely. The first cities began to rise Eridu, the first, according to the Sumerians, in BCE, then Uruk and the others around BCE and cultivation of wheat and grains was practiced in addition to the further domestication of animals by the year BCE the image of the breed of dog known as the Saluki was appearing regularly on vases and other ceramics as well as wall paintings.
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Download and print a copy of this blank Fertile Crescent map. Compare it to a modern map of the area online. How many of the areas mentioned in today's Wonder of the Day can you identify and mark on your map? Identify and mark as many modern countries and rivers as you can. Knowing what you know about the deserts that can be found in the Fertile Crescent area today, it might be hard to imagine a time when there were fertile lands that supported the first civilizations that made some important contributions to our modern world, including architecture and language.
But it's true! How fertile is the land where you live? Take some time today to learn more about the area in which you live. Grab a friend or family member and take a trip to your local library to find more information about the climate in your area. You should also ask for any resources available about the kinds of crops grown in your area. Traveling the roads of your area is also a good way to learn about the kinds of things grown locally.
What do people grow in their local gardens? What about local farms? What do you see growing in local fields? Soy beans? If you live in an area not known for crop production, what is produced in your area?
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Thanks for being our new Wonder Friend!! Lillian Sep 11, This helped me with my homework. Thanks for helping! Sumerians invented cuneiform script, one of the earliest forms of writing. They also built large stepped pyramids called ziggurats. Sumerians celebrated art and literature. The 3,line poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh , follows the adventures of a Sumer king as he battles a forest monster and quests after the secrets of eternal life. British and French archaeologists began exploring the Fertile Crescent for the remains of storied Mesopotamian cities such as Assyria and Babylonia as early as the mids.
Archaeologists think it was built around B. Babylon: Founded nearly 5, years ago on the Euphrates River in present-day Iraq, this ancient metropolis and Biblical city was the last major power in Mesopotamia to fall under Persian control in B. Today the Fertile Crescent is not so fertile: Beginning in the s, a series of large-scale irrigation projects diverted water away from the famed Mesopotamian marshes of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, causing them to dry up.
In , the government of Saddam Hussein built a series of dikes and dams to further drain the Iraqi marshes and punish dissident Marsh Arabs who made a living cultivating rice and raising water buffalo there.
NASA satellite images showed that that by roughly 90 percent of the marshland had disappeared, turning more than a thousand square miles into desert. More than , Marsh Arabs lost their homes. Many of the Hussein-era dams have since been removed, though the wetlands remain only about half of their pre-drained level. Where is the Fertile Crescent? But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. The Bronze Age marked the first time humans started to work with metal. Bronze tools and weapons soon replaced earlier stone versions. Humans made many technological advances during the Its history is marked by many important inventions that changed the world, including the concept The Neolithic Revolution, also called the Agricultural Revolution, marked the transition in human history from small, nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers to larger, agricultural settlements and early civilization.
The Neolithic Revolution started around 10, B. The Stone Age marks a period of prehistory in which humans used primitive stone tools. Lasting roughly 2. During the Stone Hunter-gatherers were prehistoric nomadic groups that harnessed the use of fire, developed intricate knowledge of plant life and refined technology for hunting and domestic purposes as they spread from Africa to Asia, Europe and beyond.
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