WONDER #861: Where Is the Fertile Crescent?

Question 1 of 3

Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent are sometimes also called what?

  1. the Bassinet of Civilization
  2. the Cradle of Civilization
  3. the basket of crescent rolls
  4. the Cradle of Modernization

Question 2 of 3

The Fertile Crescent stretches from which river to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

  1. Amazon
  2. Thames
  3. Nile
  4. Rhine

Question 3 of 3

According to scientists, about what percentage of the area’s important marshlands remain?

  1. 30%
  2. 70%
  3. 13%
  4. 10%

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