Culture #100

ILR 1+ · Culture & religion · lecture · natural recording

Play the recording, then answer the questions.

Question 1 of 4Where does the region stretch?

Question 2 of 4Why is the land fertile?

Question 3 of 4What began there about ten thousand years ago?

Question 4 of 4What else does the lecture say about the region?

Vocabulary

الْهِلَالُ الْخَصِيبُthe Fertile Crescent

هِلَالcrescent

تَمْتَدُّstretches

عَبْرَthrough, across

خَصِبَةfertile

بِفَضْلِthanks to

حَضَارَاتcivilizations