So now we know it is the Fertile Crescent.

现在我们知道它来自新月沃土。

This dish stems from the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East.

这道菜起源于中东的新月沃土。

The first cultural communities appeared in China, India, and the Fertile Crescent.

第一个文化社区分别先后出现在中国，印度和新月沃地。

Well the fertile crescent, while it is fertile, is lacking the pretty much everything else.

肥沃的新月平原除了肥沃之外，几乎什么其他也没有。

Soon after in the eastern Mediterranean in the Fertile Crescent, the bronze age ended in violence.

在地中海的新月沃东不久之后，青铜时代最终以暴力告终。

This he saw as the genetic signature of farming after its invention around 9,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent.

卡瓦利-斯福扎认为这是约9000年前在肥沃月湾（一古代农业地区）发明农业之后的基因标志。

If true, it means that animal domestication didn't originate solely in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia, as many of us learned in history class.

如果属实，那就意味着动物驯养并非像我们大多数人从历史课上学到的那样，仅仅起源于美索不达米亚的新月沃土。

The domestication of the modern house cat can be traced back to more than 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, at the start of the Neolithic era.

现代化宠物猫的驯化可以追溯到一万多年前的新月沃土那里，在新石器时代开始的时候。

This relatively recent discovery has upset the conventional view that farming began in the Middle East, in whats called the Fertile Crescent, and from there spread across the world.

相当近期的考古发现挑战了传统观点，认为农业起源于中东一带所谓“新月沃土”的地区，随后向世界各地蔓延。

But about 3,600 years a new kind of barley arrived in the region, after being domesticated in the Fertile Crescent that spread from the Persian Gulf to the Nile.

但在从波斯湾传播到尼罗河新月沃土后约3600年前一种新品种的青稞被带到此地。

Actually, some speculate it might have been for beer, but either way, wheat made it from the Fertile Crescent to both the Atlantic and the Pacific by roughly 2500 BC.

实际上有人猜测可能是为了做啤酒，但无论如何，约在公元前 2500 年，小麦已经从新月沃土传播到了大西洋和太平洋地区。

After supporting human  civilization for over 6,000 years, the fertile crescent may be destroyed by  the very species that it helped establish.

在支持人类文明 6,000 多年之后，肥沃的新月可能会被它帮助建立的物种所摧毁。

Domesticated cats first got started in the Fertile Crescent, the area of the Middle East where plants could actually grow and farming began.

家养猫最早起源于新月沃土，这是中东地区真正可以种植植物并开始耕种的地区。