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yankees78
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What were the advantages of the Fertile Crescent that made it the earliest site of development for most of the building blocks of civilization?

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Posted by yankees78 on Saturday September 5, 2009 at 11:43 AM and tagged with and steel, civilization, fertile crescent, germs, guns, jared diamond.

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    It had a mild climate. There was an abundance of wild grains that took very little to domesticate. Hunters and gatherers who settled here were able to survive on the abundant grain until agriculture was established. The native plants were easy to reproduce due to self pollination. Hunting and gathering was not highly successful and the soon agriculture was predominant.

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    Posted by ask996 on Sunday September 6, 2009 at 10:59 AM