who discovered the fertile crescent
Actually, Mesopotamia is only the eastern part of the Fertile  crescent. The western part included Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel,  and Palestine. It is called the fertile câ¦rescent because it is a  fertile area in the surrounding desert and mountains, and it is  shaped in a crescent. It was given the name Fertile Crescent by  archaeologist and historian James Henry Breasted in 1906.