... have made a lasting impact and influenced many ancient civilizations. Around the same time Egypt was being developed, civilization in Mesopotamia was growing. The two lands were known together as the "Fertile Crescent," a rich food-growing area in a part of the world where most of the land is too dry for farming. Beginning on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, the ... Fertile Crescent curves around like a quarter moon to the Persian Gulf. Mesopotamia made up parts of Iraq and Syria, lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Some of the earliest known writings ... ...

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