What is the Fertile Crescent?
an arc of lush, fertile land formed by the uplands of the Tigris and Euphrates river systems and the Zagros Mountians between Iraq and Iran, where nomadic peoples began the earliest known agricultural communities. Plentiful of freshwater, open forest and grasslands, wild grains, fish, goats, sheep, wild cattle, and other large animals
Extra Note: Three major empires developed successfully in the eastern part: The Sumerian, the Babylonian, and the Assyrian