Unit 1:: Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent

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Unit 1: Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent
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Abstract

When the noted Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer wrote his popular history of the ancient Mideast, he called it History Begins at Sumer. Historians and archaeologists have found the earliest extensive remains of civilized life and society in the city-states of southern Iraq. Before those city-states could arise, however, the societies that preceded them throughout the Fertile Crescent—the broad plain defined by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers on the east and the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea on the west—had to develop the intensive agri-culture that allowed cities to emerge.

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