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The Fertile Crescent

The Fertile Crescent was the first area to develop agriculture. It was the first to harness the power of agriculture because of geographic luck. Geographic luck is the fact that where a civilization was on the earth relates to how well the civilization did in becoming a supreme power on the earth. If the civilization was started near a place heavy with crops highly nutritious, then it did well. If it did not have nutritious crops, then it did not do as well as some other civilizations. Geography also related to what animals they domesticated.
In Jared Diamond’s book, he describes the fact that a civilization’s power originates from the fact that it had writing, guns, germs, and/or steel. The fact that civilizations had these things all depended on their being geographically lucky. Although the Fertile Crescent was the first to develop agriculture and developed guns, germs, and steel they still couldn’t compare to the power of Europeans in the 17th......

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