<span>Famous English explorers including Henry Hudson looked for a sea route through North America in the 1500's but they were unsuccessful. This route was called the Northwest Passage and it was finally discovered by an Irish explorer named Robert McClure in 1849.</span>
The name Fertile Crescent does not actually refer to Mesopotamia, but instead refers areas of fertile soil near the rivers in the area that stretches for the Nile River to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
