Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent - Review
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Unit 1 Review
Short-answer Questions: World History I, Unit 1
Map Exercises: World History I, Unit 1
Key Terms: World History I, Unit 1
Key Concepts: World History I, Unit 1
Key Arguments: World History I, Unit 1

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Abstract

This region stretched in an arc from Israel to southern Turkey to the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. Food production first arose here because there was enough rainfall for farming without irrigation and because of the many wild plants and animals living there suitable for domestication.

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