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Ancient farmers in the Fertile Cresent made their land more productive by using the Tigris and Euphrates River to make land more fertile
The land in Mesopotamia was fertile, and it happened to be shaped like a crescent.
The most important factor of making Mesopotamia's farmland fertile was water.
A long and thin piece of land where crops grow easily is often referred to as a "fertile ribbon."
The flooding of the Tigris and the Euphrates caused silt that washed from the mountains they flowed from, onto the land making it fertile and that is why Mesopotamia is called the fertile crescent.