The fertile crescent is named after its

The land in Mesopotamia was fertile and it happened to be shaped
like a crescent and thats how it got its name.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.