How Did the Fertile Crescent Get Its Name?

A Map of the Fertile Crescent
Also Called Mesopotamia

The Fertile Crescent was a place where a lot of hunter-gatherers settled in. The Fertile Crescent got its name because it had a fertile soil and the land that marked the Fertile Crescent was shaped like a moon.

Why was the soil fertile? It started from the Mediterranean Sea. Water evaporated from the Mediterranean Sea and evaporated and condensed into clouds. You all know the water cycle right? The wind blew those clouds over the Fertile Crescent where the clouds bumped into mountains. When the clouds bumped into mountains it started raining.

The Fertile Crescent had two rivers running through it called the Tigris and the Euphrates. You might not be able to see clearly in the map of the Fertile Crescent, but if you zoom in on the image you'll be able those two rivers.

When the rain started pouring down on the land, the rivers flooded. When the rivers flooded, they carried with them a rich material called silt. Silt gave nutrition to the soil and made it fertile.

(The Fertile Crescent was also called Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers.)