{"id":3591,"date":"2020-12-08T01:15:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T01:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyed.site\/?page_id=3591"},"modified":"2021-01-10T16:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T16:37:34","slug":"3-the-fertile-crescent","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/centuries\/ancient\/session-2\/3-the-fertile-crescent\/","title":{"rendered":"3) The Fertile Crescent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Topic 3 &#8211; Session 2 &#8211; The Ancient Centuries<\/p>\n<p>Northwest of Egypt stretched a belt of land fertile for grazing and even for settled agriculture. This stretched north of the Sinai Desert into the Palestine region and down into Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). How did this proximity affect the earliest civilizations?<\/p>\n<div class=\"one-half first\">\n<p>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3753\" src=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Fertile-Crescent.gif\" alt=\"Fertile Crescent\" width=\"450\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"one-half\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Outline<\/h4>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/centuries\/ancient\/\">Course<\/a> The Ancient Centuries<br \/>\n<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/centuries\/ancient\/session-2\/\">Session 2<\/a> 3000 to 2000<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Other Topics for This Session<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/centuries\/ancient\/session-2\/1-out-of-the-sahara\/\">One<\/a>| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/centuries\/ancient\/session-2\/2-egypt-begins\/\">Two<\/a>| |Three| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/centuries\/ancient\/session-2\/4-land-of-the-two-rivers\/\">Four<\/a>| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/centuries\/ancient\/session-2\/5-earliest-india\/\">Five<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Further Information<\/h1>\n<h2>Articles<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fertile_Crescent\">Fertile Crescent<\/a> <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neolithic_Revolution\">Neolithic Revolution<\/a> <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prehistory_of_the_Levant\">Prehistory of the Levant<\/a> <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akkadian_Empire\">Akkadian Empire<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Videos<\/h2>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h34KulvXzxw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1BrhZBMOS8U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic 3 &#8211; Session 2 &#8211; The Ancient Centuries Northwest of Egypt stretched a belt of land fertile for grazing and even for settled agriculture. This stretched north of the Sinai Desert into the Palestine region and down into Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). How did this proximity affect the earliest civilizations? . Outline Course The Ancient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1257,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3591","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4011,"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3591\/revisions\/4011"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}