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The key to agriculture in Iraq and Syria - the eastern edge of the Fertile Crescent - is the great Euphrates River. Nearly 2,000 miles long, with an average annual flow of 1.024 billion cubic feet, the Euphrates rises in Turkey, crosses northeast Syria and, joining the Tigris River, flows south into the Gulf. Enroute it irrigates the alluvial plain between the lower waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris, site of the ancient fluvial civilizations of Mesopotamia - a word meaning "between the rivers." In ancient times the development of agriculture was swift and by the time Babylon reached its peak, crops were rich and abundant. As Theophrastus observed, "Wheat fields are regularly mown twice, and then fed off with beasts to keep down the luxuriance."
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The Fertile Crescent is an image that has long captured imagination about the ancient bronze-age civilizations of the Eastern Aegean and the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. These civilizations spanned millennia and included Babylon, Sumer, Akkad, Uruk, and the Egyptians among others. Although little is known about many of these civilizations, it is generally accepted that significant advances in technology and societal organization sprang from this region. More.
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Most distinctions between Muslims and evangelical Christians in the Fertile Crescent today have no relationship to the gospel. They are cultural differences, primarily over diet and dress. Once again comes a cry for a New Testament solution.
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The Fertile Crescent lies at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates in southern Iraq and extends into Iran. Analyzing historical data and new images from NASA's Landsat satellites, scientists at the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) found that the marshy area has almost completely dried up over the past three decades and is now mainly desert with large salt-encrusted patches. A small northern fringe of marsh that straddles the Iraq-Iran border is all that remains.
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The Fertile Crescent begins in what is now southern Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into the Persian Gulf. It extends north along with the rivers, turns westward in what was ancient Assyria, and then turns back south in what is modern Syria. The Fertile Crescent then extends down into southern Palestine; sometimes the Nile River region is included in the Fertile Crescent despite the fact that it and southern Palestine are separated by the distinctly un-fertile Sinai peninsula.
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The Fertile Crescent of the Middle East has long been identified as a “cradle of civilization” for humans. In a new genetic study, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have concluded that all ancestral roads for the modern day domestic cat ... lead back to the same locale.
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