It is the historic region of the middle east. well-watered fertile area. Some of the first cities on Earth formed in the Fertile Crescent. One of the greatest kingdoms was mesopotamia.
yes it was because it was positioned in between the Tigris and Euphrates river which deposited silt, which are minerals that put nutrients in the soil that encourage agriculture.
the fertile crescent was called 'fertile' because around 2000 b.c. there was fertile soil that was great for farming. new soil called silt was brought over regularly by floods. this fertility later...
A Fertile Crecsent is a reigon consisting of what is now Iraq, northwest Syria, and part of southeast Turky, shaped like a crescent and having fertile soil.