Humans first started farming and herding in the fertile crescent around?

Question

Humans first started farming and herding in the fertile crescent around?

Answer 1

Well the first and oldest civilization that we know of was the Sumer civilization, which started around 4500 B.C., thats when humans stopped relying on the hunt and being nomads moving where the food took them, they started farming and settling down in one place in the like the Sumer in the Fertile Crescent.

Edit: it's probably more like 5000 B.C.

Answer 2

It is not clear if your question relates to a time in history or a location in geography.

If it is the former, the answer is between 4,500 and 5,500 B.C. New archaeological excavations in the Indus valley of Pakistan and India seem to indicate that the earliest date for agricultural settlement may be even earlier than that.

If the latter, the so-called fertile crescent extends from modern Greece and Turkey though Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. All of these are countries in a rough crescent round the Eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.

Answer 3

Yes, the Sumerian Civilization was the first Mesopotamian civilization. It followed Egypt by about 250 years to 300 years, placing it around 4750 BCE to 4500 BCE.

We know Egypt preceded them, because we have found artifacts of Egyptian influence in Sumer.