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But the Fertile Crescent refers to areas of fertile soil near important rivers in the area. It stretches from the Nile River in Egypt to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern Iraq.It also encompasses several other countries, including Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.he Arabian Desert lies to the south of the Fertile Crescent. Archeologist James Henry Breasted first used the term â Fertile Crescent â to describe the area. According to him, the Fertile Crescent was the first area settled in western Asia.
The Fertile Crescent (also known as the cradle of civilization) is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta.