They did so, first, in the Fertile Crescent, the sweep of productive land that ran through Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Palestine, from which Jericho, Ur, Nineveh and Babylon (pictured above) would emerge.

城市逐渐成型。 首先，在“新月沃地”（指穿越伊拉克、叙利亚、约旦及巴基斯坦等地区的一连串肥沃的土地，状似一轮新月）上，先后涌现了巴勒斯坦古城耶利哥、乌尔、古代亚述的首都尼尼微以及巴比伦。

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