The Fertile Crescent is a region between the eastern Mediterranean and the the valleys of Tigris and Euphrates. This region is very important in the human history as this is the region from which the first civilizations arose, mainly because it enable the people to produce food on large scale and be able to have a settled life style. Also, this is a region that is very important because from here spread the monotheistic religions, such as the Judaism, and Christianity, but also the Islam even though it started off in Arabia, it is a religion descendant of the previous two.
Both are correct its all about who is living there and where it is. In lower income places where people dont have alot of money they tend to turn to stealing for money/food. Crime is everywhere and it can tend to be worse when you have a bad neighborhood.
An authoritarian society is one in which a single person or small group of people have political control. Food and resources are shifted to the upper classes.
The Missouri Compromise kept the amount of slave states and free states balanced in America. However, the Kansas-Nebraska Act reapeled the Missouri Comp. because it allowed the states to decided if they wanted to be slave or free based on popular sovereignty.
