which was known as the "Fertile Crescent"?
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The Fertile Crescent is a historical region in the Middle East incorporating Ancient Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The term "Fertile Crescent" was coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted.\n\nWatered by the Nile, Jordan, Euphrates and Tigris rivers and covering some 400-500,000 square kilometers, the region extends from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea around the north of the Syrian Desert and through the Jazirah and Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf. These areas correspond to the present-day Egypt, Israel, West Bank, Gaza strip, and Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, south-eastern Turkey and south-western Iran. The population of the Nile River Basin is about 70 million, the Jordan River Basin about 20 million, and the Tigris and Euphrates Basins about 30 million, giving the present-day Fertile Crescent a total population of approximately 120 million, or at least a third of the population of the Middle East.\n\nThe Fertile Crescent has an impressive record of past human activity. As well as possessing many sites with the skeletal and cultural remains of both pre-modern and early modern humans (e.g. at Kebara Cave in Israel), later Pleistocene hunter-gatherers and Epipalaeolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherers (the Natufians), this area is most famous for its sites related to the origins of agriculture. The western zone around the Jordan and upper Euphrates rivers gave rise to the first known Neolithic farming settlements (referred to as Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)), which date to around 9,000 BCE (and includes sites such as Jericho). This region, alongside Mesopotamia (which lies to the east of the Fertile Crescent, between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates), also saw the emergence of early complex societies during the succeeding Bronze Age. There is also early evidence from this region for writing, and the formation of state-level societies. This has earned the region the nickname "The Cradle of Civilization."\n\nSince the Bronze Age, the region's natural fertility has been greatly extended by irrigation works, upon which much of its agricultural production continues to depend. The last two millennia have seen repeated cycles of decline and recovery as past works have fallen into disrepair through the replacement of states, to be replaced under their successors. Another ongoing problem has been salination -- the seepage of salt water into irrigated farmland.\n\nAs crucial as rivers were to the rise of civilization in the Fertile Crescent, they were not the only factor in the area's precocity. The Fertile Crescent had a climate which encouraged the evolution of many annual plants, which produce more edible seeds than perennials, and the region's dramatic variety of elevation gave rise to many species of edible plants for early experiments in cultivation. Most importantly, the Fertile Crescent possessed the wild progenitors of the eight Neolithic founder crops important in early agriculture (i.e. wild progenitors to emmer wheat, einkorn, barley, flax, chick pea, pea, lentil, bitter vetch), and four of the five most important species of domesticated animals - cows, goats, sheep, and pigs - and the fifth species, the horse, lived nearby.\n\nIn the contemporary era, river waters remain a potential source of friction in the region. The Jordan lies on the borders of Israel, the kingdom of Jordan and the area administered by the Palestinian Authority. Turkey and Syria each control about a quarter of the length of the Euphrates, on whose lower reaches Iraq is still heavily dependent.
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The reason for this is the history of mankind for the last 10thousand years.\n\nFarming started in the fertile crescent and branched off from there in an east west direction.  For the same crop to be grown at a different lattitude it had to go north and south, at a substantially slower rate, because the plant would have to adjust to the change in sunlight.\n\nTo go east and west from the fertile crescent to france or to china is didn't have to change that much, the plants.\n\nThere were also animals in europe and asia the could be domesticated, like cows and pigs, the animals in africa are zebras or tigers, and can't be domesticated. Modern attempts in other places besides africa haven't proven successful.\n\nSo the farming only hit egypt originally, and maybe spread to ethiopia, but it didn't last to modern times because of the culture of hunter gather that was dominant throughout africa spread and didn't choose to continue farming.\n\nNow the Europeans came in the 1700s and 1800s with guns and germs, and eliminated some of the population and divided the remaining populations,\nyou've seen hutu and tootisy and know that this has to do with an artifical division.\n\n\nSo theres no agricultural base, which is prerequisite to capitalism, which is prerequisite to a nation having wealth.\n\nInstead the continent seems content on the genocidal whims of whoever has the guns left over by the europeans.\n\nGod has nothing to do with it, and anyone who says so, I really question their intelligence.
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Islam.... Quran\nChristianity..... Holy Bible\nJudaism.... Tanakh (Torah Naviim and Khatuvim)\nBuddhism.... Dhammapada (this will very between sects)\nHinduism..... Bhagavad-Gita\nancient egypt...The Book of the Sky is one of many attributed by Egyptian Pharaoh, Akhenaten (i believe he is from the 18th dynasty) The Book of the Heavenly Cow is another which was begun during the reign of King Tut.... i'm sure there are others i'm not aware of\n\nunfortunately i don't know much about the last two\n\n****i'm not sure about the greatest pagan works but it is definitely something i'll look into\n\npeace and blessings to all
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Babylon was an ancient city-state (a country the size and shape of a city) in modern-day Iraq, close to the Persian Gulf... :)
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The Tunisian Republic (الجمهرية التونسية), or Tunisia, is a country situated on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa. It is the easternmost and smallest of the nations situated along the Atlas mountain range, bordering Algeria, to the west, and Libya to the south and east. Forty percent of the country is composed of the Sahara desert, with much of the remainder consisting of particularly fertile soil, with easily accessible coasts. \n\nBoth played a prominent role in ancient times, first with the famous Phoenician city of Carthage, and later, as the Africa Province, it became known as the bread basket of the Roman Empire. It is thought that the name Tunis originated from Berber, meaning either a geographical promontory, or, "to spend the night."\n\nIs this of any help?
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LOL...Good point! Give em something to think about!\n\n********\n\nNoah and his ark was actually a true story.....notice, I said STORY....not EVENT.\n\nThe Fertile Crescent had spring floods every year, due to the snows melting from the Ural mountains to the north. The story was a tale told at the time to get locals to prepare for the spring floods by moving to higher grounds or to build barges/floats, to keep above the flood waters.\n\nThe "story" says it was the "whole world" that flooded.....actually it was THEIR whole world.....people didn't use to travel a lot, ya know. the whole bible is a compiled group of stories just like this one.
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Nobody really knows for sure the exact location of the Garden of Eden.  Several websites had different answers.  Some have Egypt other have Iraq or Iran. \n\nYou might want to check out these websites.\n\nhttp://www.ldolphin.org/eden/\n\nhttp://www.gotquestions.org/garden-of-Eden-location.html\n\nhttp://www.crystalinks.com/gardenofeden.html\n\nhttp://www.biblicalheritage.org/Archaeology/eden.htm
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Historically it was Persian Gulf .. but now it is called Arabian Gulf >> There are 7 Arab countries surrounding the The Gulf \n\nSaudi Arabia\n\nKuwait\n\nIraq\n\nOman\n\nKingdom of Bahrain\n\nUnited Arab Emirates\n\nState of Qatar
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In roughly the same time period as the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt, during which King Tutankhamun reigned near the end of the 18th Dynasty, the broader European region was in what most scholars term the Bronze Age.\nThe Aegean area (roughly the area of Greece and associated islands) was part of a broader trading network throughout North Africa (including Egypt), and the Near East (areas of the modern states of Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, etc.)  \nIn Central Europe at roughly this time period, people were working metal, trading as far away as modern Britain, and settlements seem to have been fairly small, often protected by a palisade wall.\nThe Wessex Culture in Britain had broad ranging trade links, practiced inhumation in barrows, and is responsible for the construction of Stonehenge.\n\nAgain, these are rough chronological synchronies and it's difficult to give a brief account of "stages" of civilization without writing an extensive piece on anthropological and archaeological theory regarding stages of development, the validity of the term "civilization," etc.
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Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco 1956\nor ghana 1957 depending on what you define as sub-saharan. look at the map and other link.
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(m)\n\nHemophilia was recognized, though not named, in ancient times. The Talmud, a collection of Jewish Rabbinical writings from the 2nd century AD, stated that male babies did not have to be circumcised if two brothers had already died from the procedure.\n\nThe Arab physician Albucasis, who lived in the 12th century, wrote of a family whose males died of bleeding after minor injuries.\n\nThen, in 1803, a Philadelphia physician named Dr. John Conrad Otto wrote an account of "a hemorrhagic disposition existing in certain families". He recognized that the condition was hereditary and affected males. He traced the disease back through three generations to a woman who had settled near Plymouth, New Hampshire, in 1720.\n\nThe word "hemophilia" first appears in a description of the condition written by Hopff at the University of Zurich in 1828.
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Oldest Civilisation\nRich Heritage
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Check this site:\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.activemind.com%2FMysterious%2FTopics%2FAtlantis%2Findex.html
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The Silk Road, or Carpet Belt, was a trade route that existed before recorded history, by nomads who traveled from China, through India, to The Mediterranean Sea, and back...\n\nIncidentally, these first nomads, who wove lightweight carpets, for bedding, tents, etc. were also the first mutations of Blood Type "B", approximately 10,000 years ago. They are the only Blood Type that has compatibility with dairy products, because they were the first humans that milked their transportation...oxen, camels, sheep, goats, horses, etc.
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The ancient name Bambyce was changed to Hieropolis by Seleucus Nicator, ... Coele-Syria
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Ai, which was the citadel of terrace farming during the iron age\n\n and \n\nUr, which is actually short for Ur-Nammu
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The Great Wall of China (Simplified Chinese: 万里长城; Traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; Hanyu Pinyin: Wànlĭ Chángchéng; literally "10,000 Li¹ long wall"), is an ancient Chinese fortification built circa 200 BC and greatly strengthened from the 14th century until the beginning of the 17th century, during the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect the Ming empire from raids by the Mongols and Turkic tribes. It was preceded by several walls built since the 3rd century BC against the raids of nomadic tribes coming from areas in modern-day Mongolia and Manchuria. The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,352 km (3,948 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Gulf in the east, at the limit between China proper and Manchuria, to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (refer to University of Washington: A. The Main Caravan Routes (b) The “Central Route” or “Middle Route.”).