SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which civilization is known as the “Fertile Crescent”?
A
Mesopotamia
B
Indus Civilization
C
Athens
D
Mauryan Empire
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What civilizations lived in the Fertile Crescent? Far from a monolithic region, the Fertile Crescent was home to many ancient civilizations including Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first cities began to rise in Mesopotamia in the region of Sumer. Eridu, the first, according to the Sumerians, in 5400 BCE, then Uruk and others. By c. 4500 BCE cultivation of wheat and grains had long been practiced in addition to the further domestication of animals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fertile Crescent, the region where the first settled agricultural communities of the Middle East and Mediterranean basin are thought to have originated by the early 9th millennium bce.

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