who discovered the fertile crescent
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- Actually, Mesopotamia is only the eastern part of the Fertile  crescent. The western part included Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel,  and Palestine. It is called the fertile c…rescent because it is a  fertile area in the surrounding desert and mountains, and it is  shaped in a crescent. It was given the name Fertile Crescent by  archaeologist and historian James Henry Breasted in 1906.
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- The Fertile Crescent: Cradle of Civilization. Dive into a summary of the features that encouraged settlers to start a civilization in the Fertile Crescent. Examine the technology, art and architecture of the region. The Four Empires of Mesopotamia.
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The Fertile Crescent Some of the best farmland of the Fertile Crescent is on a narrow strip of land between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers. The two rivers travel in the same direction for thousands of miles before they combine to drain into the Persian Gulf. The Greeks called this area Mesopotamia, which means between the rivers..
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History of Mesopotamia * The Sumerians created the first known civilization in the Ancient Middle East. 3. The Tigris and Euphrates Valley: located in the eastern end ofthe Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea).
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The Neolithic Revolution The Neolithic Revolution occurred first in the so-called Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia in what is now modern Iraq. It also occurred independently (probably) at later dates in China, the Americas and possibly in parts of Africa and New Guinea.
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Fertile Crescent The Fertile Crescent (also known as the Cradle of Civilization) is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta of northeast Africa.he modern-day countries with significant territory within the Fertile Crescent are Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Cyprus, and Egypt, beside the southeastern fringe of Turkey and the western fringes of Iran.
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JUST THE FACTS c 3500 BC – Bricks c 30. EARLY FARMING INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES 5000 BC — Scratch plow The wooden scratch plough is used for breaking up the soil. Scientists have discovered that all plants and animals are made from cells. and one of four bases: thymine (T). stacked on one another and subsequently contorted. CONTINENTAL DRIFT • In 1912.
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- The first civilization in the Fertile Crescent was discovered in Mesopotamia.As in Egypt, these fertile lands supported the development of civilization.Villages along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers had to work together.The first Sumerian cities emerged in southern Mesopotamia around3200 B.C.
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EARLY FARMING Archaeologists use the name Fertile Crescent to describe an area to the east of the Mediterranean Sea, where farming first developed. It was a crescent-shaped strip of land that stretched across the Levant region (now known as Israel, Lebanon, and Syria), and around the edges of the Tarus and Zagros mountains.
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- Although the American research Robert Gallo at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) believed he was the first to find HIV, it is now generally accepted that the French physician Luc Montagnier (1932-) and his team at the Pasteur Institute discovered HIV in 1983-84.
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Mailbag: What is modern fit, anyway? Mailbag: What is modern fit, anyway? JLC writes: What do you guys mean when you talk about modern or contemporary fit? Answer: A lot of trends are short-lived by design, due to the need for clothiers to keep selling us new crap every year. But taken over time, a few solid trends have emerged.
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- Definition: The fertile crescent refers to an ancient area of fertile soil and important rivers stretching in an arc from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates. It covers Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq.The Mediterranean lies on the outside edge of the arc. To the south of the arc is the Arabian Desert.y N.S. Gill. Definition: The fertile crescent refers to an ancient area of fertile soil and important rivers stretching in an arc from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates. It covers Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. The Mediterranean lies on the outside edge of the arc.
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- What aspect of the Fertile Crescent led to development of early civilization? As the name implies, the Fertile Crescent was an area in the Middle East that provided a supreme growing environment for vegetation. Because it lies between the Tigris and Eup…hrates rivers, the land was very fertile and many groups of people sought this land to grow their crops and maintain their way of life.
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The Tudors â Discoverers and Explorers Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer who, financed by the king and queen of Spain, set sail to find a new route to India. He left Europe early in September 1492 and when land was sighted one month later he believed he had found India and named the native people living there, Indians.
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Lucy's Story Lucy was found by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray on November 24, 1974, at the site of Hadar in Ethiopia. They had taken a Land Rover out that day to map in another locality. After a long, hot morning of mapping and surveying for fossils, they decided to head back to the vehicle.
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- Roger J. Williams was an American biochemist, and a professor at University of Oregon, Oregon State University and University of Texas at Austin. While researching yeast, Williams discovered the vitamin, pantothenic acid, he also discovered how to isolate and synthesize it.While studying yeast, Williams is also credited for the discovery of aneurin and folic acid.antothenate can also be referred to as Pantothenic Acid. It’s common name however is vitamin B 5. For many animals Pantothenate is an essential nutrient. It’s name is derived from the Greek word for ‘from everywhere’. This vitamin was first discovered in the 1900s by Roger Williams.
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Stargate  ( 1994) In 1928, in Egypt, a strange device is found by an expedition. In the present days, the outcast linguist Dr. Daniel Jackson is invited by a mysterious woman to decipher an ancient hieroglyph in a military facility. Soon he finds that the device was developed by an advanced civilization and opens a portal to teletransport to another planet. Dr. Jackson is invited to join a military team under the command of Colonel Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neil that will explore the new world. They find a land that recalls Egypt and humans in a primitive culture that worship and are slaves to Ra, the God of the Sun.
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Who founded the Rosetta Stone? The Champollion and Young translation in 1824 enabled researchers (and the world) to understand Egyptian history, not only from the perspective of previous historians, but from the perspective of the people who lived it. Some really excellent Rosetta Stone resources:
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Who developed the first civilization in the Fertile Crescent? What reason the urban civilizations developed in Europe slower than in the Fertile Crescent was because? Civilisation rests on a surplus of produce, which allows people todo more than just scratch for a living.
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Donald Johanson Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds Donald Johanson also discovered a group of 2.5 million year old stone tools as well as the so-called First Family, a collection of prehistoric hominid teeth and bones that were also discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1975. Due to political conditions in Ethiopia, Johanson's work in the region has been halted.
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Famous Inventions Penicillin (1928) Discovered by Alexander Fleming (Scot). who found the growth of penicillin on a jar of mould left overnight. Penicillin was later mass produced by Howard Florey (Aus) and a team of scientists enabling it to be used during the Second World War.
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- The Fertile Crescent (also known as the Cradle of Civilization) is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta of northeast Africa.n current usage, all definitions of the Fertile Crescent include Mesopotamia, the land in and around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; and the Levant, the eastern coast of the Mediterranean sea.
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- The first known civilization to inhabit the region of present-day Sudan were the Meroitic people, who lived in the area between the Atbara and Nile Rivers from 590 B.C.E. until 350 B.C.E. , when the city of Meroe was ransacked by the Ethiopians.
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Ancient Cultures of the Great Sea The main rivers in the Fertile Crescent are  the Euphrates River, the Tigris River, and the Jordan River. The Fertile Crescent included the arable river valleys that ran from Africa to the Persian Gulf in Western Asia.he fertile crescent is a nickname for Mesopotamia and the Jordan  River valley. Fertile means wet and crescent is a little thinner  than half moon.There is another nickname … for Mesopotamia: the land  between the rivers. This a true statement too because there are two  rivers surrounding it.
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Lake Tanganyika his vast inland sea was first made known to the European world in the mid 1800’s by the English explorers Richard Burton and John Speke. They pursued it as the source of the Nile, arriving at its shores in February of 1858, only to discover that the Ruzizi River in the north, which they thought to be the Nile, flowed into and not out of the lake.
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- It occurred in the Fertile Crescent and spread gradually as travelers took the newly developed agricultural techniques to other regions. b. It occurred in sub-Saharan Africa and spread gradually as humans migrated to other parts of the earth.