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Fertile, luscious land in the middle of the desert? That’s right. This song takes you back to the Fertile Crescent civilizations, those city-states located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Explore the important contributions that the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians made to our modern world: wheeled vehicles, arches and the written language of cuneiform.