A city has a centralized government and economy, specialized jobs, large-scale architecture and surplus agriculture. Many scholars believe that urbanization—the formation of cities—first occurred in ...
Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...
Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable land in the fertile crescent ... societies based on agriculture and trade.