Fertile Crescent

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The Fertile Crescent is a historically rich, agriculturally productive region in the Middle East often regarded as one of the cradles of civilization, where early farming and some of the first complex societies emerged.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Fertile Crescent canonical 24
Euphrates River valley 2
Fertile Crescent cultural sphere 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (77)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
historical region
archaeologicalCulture Natufian culture
archaeologicalSite Babylon
Jericho
Nineveh
Ur
Uruk
Çatalhöyük
associatedWith Akkadian Empire
Ancient Egypt
linked to: Pharaonic Egypt

Assyrian Empire
linked to: Assyria

Babylonian civilization
Bronze Age civilizations
Canaanite cultures
Neolithic Revolution
Sumerian civilization
linked to: Sumer
borderedBy Mediterranean Sea
Zagros Mountains
characterizedBy alluvial soils
high agricultural productivity
riverine floodplains
seasonal rainfall
fieldOfStudy Near Eastern archaeology
ancient history
historical geography
hasApproximateShape crescent
hasPart Jordan Valley
Levant
linked to: Levant region

Lower Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia
Nile Delta
Syrian Desert margins
linked to: Syrian Desert

Tigris–Euphrates river system
Upper Mesopotamia
Zagros foothills
knownAs cradle of civilization
knownFor domestication of animals
domestication of plants
early development of agriculture
early development of irrigation
early writing systems
emergence of early states
emergence of first cities
locatedIn Eastern Mediterranean
Middle East
Near East
linked to: Middle East

Western Asia
linked to: Middle East
majorAnimalDomesticated cattle
goats
pigs
sheep
majorCropDomesticated barley
chickpeas
lentils
peas
wheat
nameCoinedBy James Henry Breasted
partOf Old World
presentIn modern Egypt
modern Iran
linked to: present-day Iran

modern Iraq
modern Israel
modern Jordan
linked to: Kingdom of Jordan

modern Lebanon
modern Palestine
modern Syria
linked to: Syrian region

modern Turkey
timePeriod Bronze Age
Chalcolithic
Iron Age
Neolithic
traversedBy Euphrates River
linked to: Euphrates

Jordan River
Orontes River
Tigris River
linked to: Tigris

Upper Nile
linked to: Greater Upper Nile

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aleppo partOf Fertile Crescent
Karbala partOf Fertile Crescent
Chaldeans partOfHistoricalRegion Fertile Crescent
Tigris–Euphrates river system region Fertile Crescent
Dicle partOf Fertile Crescent
Al-Furāt partOf Fertile Crescent
Iraqi alluvial plain partOf Fertile Crescent
Khabur River partOf Fertile Crescent
Babylonians culturalRegion Fertile Crescent
War in the Garden of Eden hasGeographicalFocus Tigris–Euphrates region
linked to: Fertile Crescent
Upper Mesopotamia locatedIn Fertile Crescent
Northern Syria partOf Fertile Crescent
subject linked to: northern Syria
Bos primigenius firstDomesticationRegion Fertile Crescent
Jazira partOf Fertile Crescent
Capra aegagrus domesticationCenter Fertile Crescent
Dagon region Fertile Crescent
Akkadian Empire locatedIn Fertile Crescent
Lower Mesopotamia locatedIn Fertile Crescent
Phoenix dactylifera regionOfOrigin Fertile Crescent
Elam partOf Fertile Crescent cultural sphere
linked to: Fertile Crescent
Chaldea partOf Fertile Crescent
Semitic peoples originatedIn Fertile Crescent
Abu Hureyra locatedIn Euphrates River valley
linked to: Fertile Crescent
Abu Hureyra locatedIn Fertile Crescent
Al-Thawrah regionType Euphrates River valley
linked to: Fertile Crescent