Herêm yek ji dergûşên medeniyetê ye ji ber ku ew li devera ku çandiniya niştecih yekem car derketiye holê ye dema ku mirovan dest bi prosesa paqijkirin û guhartina nebatên tebîî kirin da ku nebatên nû werin kedîkirin. Medeniyetên ewil ên wekî sumeriyan li Mezopotamyayê di netîceya wê de çêbûne. Pêşkeftinên teknolojîk li herêmê pêşveçûna çandinî û bikaranîna avdaniyê, nivîsîn, teker û camê ne.
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Terma Fertile Crescent "Hîlala Berhemdar" ji aliyê arkeologJames Henry Breasted ve di Outlines of European History (1914) "Xetên sereke yên Tarîxa Ewropayê" û Ancient Times, A History of the Early World (1916) "Zemanê Antîk, Tarîxa Dinyaya Kevnare" de hatiye populerkirin.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
^Breasted, James Henry (1914). "Earliest man, the Orient, Greece, and Rome"(PDF). Bi Robinson, James Harvey; Breasted, James Henry; Beard, Charles A. (edîtor). Outlines of European history, Vol. 1. Boston: Ginn. rr. 56–57. "The Ancient Orient" map is inserted between pages 56 and 57.
^Kuklick, Bruce (1996). "Essay on methods and sources". Puritans in Babylon: the ancient Near East and American intellectual life, 1880–1930. Princeton: Princeton University Press. r. 241. ISBN978-0-691-02582-7. Textbooks...The true texts brought all of these strands together, the most important being James Henry Breasted, Ancient Times: A History of the Early World (Boston, 1916), but a predecessor, George Stephen Goodspeed, A History of the Ancient World (New York, 1904), is outstanding. Goodspeed, who taught at Chicago with Breasted, antedated him in the conception of a 'crescent' of civilization.