Why This 1910s Map Changed History Forever?

In Quick Historical Insights, I explore the historical location and subject of the Fertile Crescent, a geographic term coined by James Henry Breasted in the 1910s. This term described how the first great civilizations of that region developed around the Middle East. This included especially Ancient Mesopotamia within the Tigris-Euphrates River valley in now Iraq, but also the Levant around Israel, Lebanon and Egypt within the Jordan and Nile River valleys.

Quick Historical Insights:

Daniel Simon
Associate Professor of History
Baton Rouge Community College

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