University of Natal, Durban Warwick Chapman 200268944 Faculty of Human Sciences History 02/10/2001 “Why was the fertile crescent so important in the history of the development of farming?” Historians and Archaeologists agree that the most important event since the last Ice Age, or indeed since the evolution of human beings from their hominid ancestors, was the rise of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent by 8000 B.C. The economic, political, and technological developments that followed provided the foundation …showed first 75 words of 1201 total…

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