Ancient Near East
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The Ancient Near East was a cradle of early civilization encompassing regions like Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant, where some of the world’s first cities, empires, and writing systems emerged.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civilizational area
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historical region ⓘ |
| agriculturalBase | irrigated river valley agriculture ⓘ |
| bordersRegion |
Caucasus
ⓘ
Mediterranean Sea ⓘ Persian Gulf ⓘ Red Sea ⓘ |
| chronologicalPhases |
Chalcolithic period
ⓘ
Early Bronze Age ⓘ Iron Age ⓘ Late Bronze Age ⓘ Middle Bronze Age ⓘ |
| containsCivilization |
Achaemenid Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Achaemenid Persian Empire
Akkadian civilization ⓘ Aramean kingdoms ⓘ
surface form:
Aramean states
Assyria ⓘ
surface form:
Assyrian civilization
Babylonians ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonian civilization
Elam ⓘ
surface form:
Elamite civilization
Hittite ⓘ
surface form:
Hittite civilization
Hurrian ⓘ
surface form:
Hurrian civilization
Israelite kingdoms ⓘ Neo-Hittite states ⓘ Phoenician civilization ⓘ Sumer ⓘ
surface form:
Sumerian civilization
Kingdom of Urartu ⓘ
surface form:
Urartian kingdom
|
| earliestCitiesInclude |
Babylon
ⓘ
Eridu archaeological site ⓘ
surface form:
Eridu
Mari ⓘ Nineveh ⓘ Nippur ⓘ Ur ⓘ Uruk ⓘ |
| importantEmpires |
Achaemenid Empire
ⓘ
Akkadian Empire ⓘ Hittite Empire ⓘ Middle Assyrian Empire ⓘ Neo-Assyrian Empire ⓘ Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ Old Assyrian Empire ⓘ Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Old Babylonian Kingdom
|
| importantLawCodes |
Code of Hammurabi
ⓘ
Code of Ur-Nammu ⓘ |
| includesRegion |
Anatolia
ⓘ
Egypt ⓘ
surface form:
Egypt (in broader definitions)
Iranian plateau ⓘ
surface form:
Iranian Plateau
Levant region ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| influenced |
Abrahamic religions
ⓘ
Roman civilization ⓘ classical Greek civilization ⓘ later legal traditions ⓘ later writing systems ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex state formation
ⓘ
development of law codes ⓘ earliest writing systems ⓘ early empires ⓘ early literature ⓘ early urbanization ⓘ long-distance trade networks ⓘ monumental architecture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eastern Mediterranean
ⓘ
Western Eurasia ⓘ
surface form:
Western Asia
|
| majorLanguages |
Akkadian
ⓘ
Aramaic ⓘ Elamite ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Hittite ⓘ Hurrian ⓘ Old Persian ⓘ Sumerian ⓘ |
| majorRivers |
Euphrates
ⓘ
surface form:
Euphrates River
Jordan River ⓘ Nile ⓘ
surface form:
Nile River (in broader definitions)
Orontes River ⓘ Tigris ⓘ
surface form:
Tigris River
|
| religionsIncluded |
Canaanite religion
ⓘ
Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ Zoroastrianism ⓘ
surface form:
Zoroastrianism (late period)
early Israelite religion ⓘ |
| studiedByDiscipline |
Assyriology
ⓘ
Near Eastern archaeology ⓘ biblical studies ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Hellenistic period
ⓘ
surface form:
Hellenistic world
|
| timePeriodEnd | c. 330 BCE ⓘ |
| timePeriodStart | c. 4000 BCE ⓘ |
| writingSystemsDeveloped |
Phoenician alphabet
ⓘ
Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ cuneiform ⓘ |
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