The Fertile Crescent

question 86

Multiple Choice

The Fertile Crescent

• A) followed the Nile and Euphrates rivers.
• B) was the key to the Roman Empire in classical times.
• C) was the location of the first city-states in the Middle East and the first large-scale agricultural projects of Sub-Saharan Africa.
• D) is sometimes considered to have extended from the Nile Valley to the Atlas Mountains.
• E) extended from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea and was the location of the first city-states in the Middle East.

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