the fertile crescent
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The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are a key part of life in the Fertile Crescent.
The following are places to know.
After hundreds of
years of struggle among
Mesopotamian city-states,
Hammurabi united much
of the region
under the control of Babylon.
Hammurabi’s Code was a set
of laws that governed life
in the Babylonian
empire.
This is how Nineveh may have looked like in Ashurbanipal’s time.
The ancient Persian capital of Persepolis, in what is now Iran,
includes many detailed carvings.
THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON
Phoenician sailors steered ships full of trade goods from Western Asia
throughout the Mediterranean region.
Phoenician traders developed what is perhaps the world’s first alphabet.
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