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Which ancient civilization flourished in the Fertile Crescent, a center of early agriculture?

agriculture

[ag-ri-kuhl-cher] / ˈæg rɪˌkʌl tʃər /
NOUN
farming, crop production
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Over those decades, tycoons have leveraged their fortunes to shape the state with their railroads, mines, newspapers, oil businesses and ranching and agriculture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Immigration also provides workers for industries like construction, agriculture, food production and healthcare.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

It is currently thought the patient contracted Shav through a midge bite in eastern France, the country's health and agriculture ministries said on Thursday, where cases were first identified in animals in the spring.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Mallat, who has recently published a book on maths and AI, makes a distinction between what is happening and the mechanisation of agriculture when tractors came on the scene.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

They did not seem to recognize that for thousands of years Native people had been making roads and clearing spaces to make trading, hunting, and agriculture easier.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


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