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The Light Grey Area In The Map Represents The Fertile
The fertile crescent.
Map mesopotamia fertile crescent. This map reveals the location of the fertile crescent in the ancient biblical world. Sometime around 2500 bc. A great migration developed upon what is known as the fertile crescent which was like a great arc of cultivable land that extended from the persian gulf up and around mesopotamia and back down to israel and egypt.
This map shows the location and extent of the fertile crescent a region in the middle east incorporating ancient egypt. License based on wikipedia content that has been reviewed edited and republished. On a map the fertile crescent looks like a crescent or quarter moon.
It extends from the nile river on egypts sinai peninsula in the south to the southern fringe of turkey in the north. This fertile crescent is approximately a semicircle with the open side toward the south having the west end at the southeast corner of the mediterranean the center directly north of arabia and the east end at the north end of the persian gulf see map p. The fertile crescent includes a roughly crescent shaped area of relatively fertile land which probably had a more moderate agriculturally productive climate in the past than today especially in mesopotamia and the nile valley.
Situated between the arabian desert to the south and the mountains of the armenian highland to the north it extends from babylonia and adjacent elam the southwestern. The fertile crescent runs from the taurus mountains in the north to the arabian desert in the south and from the eastern mediterranean to the zagros mountains. Ancient mesopotamia is located within the fertile crescent but the crescent covers more geography than ancient mesopotamia.
Permission is granted to copy distribute andor modify this document under the terms of the gnu free documentation license version 12 or any later version published by the free software foundation. With no invariant sections no front cover texts and no back cover textsa copy of the license is included in the section entitled gnu free documentation license. A map of ancient mesopotamia detailing the many cities located in the south.
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Map of ancient sumeria. Empires of ancient mesopotamia. The land of the patriarchs.
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