What does the term Fertile Crescent mean?

Answer 1

The fertile crescent is a nickname for Mesopotamia. Fertile means wet and crescent is a little thinner than half moon. There is another nickname for it due to the fact that it is the land between the rivers. This a true statement too because there are two rivers surrounding it they are the Euphrates river and the Tigris river and the Jordan River.

Answer 2

the fertile crescent was called 'fertile' because around 2000 b.c. there was fertile soil that was great for farming. new soil called silt was brought over regularly by floods. this fertility later on helped grow the early cities that lived there.

Answer 3

An area in the Middle East that has recently become a great place to grow crops.

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