They did so, first, in theFertileCrescent, the sweep of productive land that ran through Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Palestine, from which Jericho, Ur, Nineveh and Babylon (pictured above) would emerge.
The great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the area we refer to as theFertileCrescent, of which a little part here about the size of Rhode Island is Canaan.
古埃及，美索不达米亚和我们称为新月沃土的地区的伟大文明，其中一小部分面积和罗德岛差不多就是迦南。
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Within the past 5, 000 years, societies across the Near East's FertileCrescent began to use systems of marks to record important trade exchanges as well as pivotal events in the present and the past.