Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia is an ancient historical region in the eastern Mediterranean, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, often regarded as the cradle of civilization for its early development of writing, cities, and complex societies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient civilization
cultural region
historical region
agriculturalTechnique irrigation canals
contains Akkad
Assyria
Babylon
Babylon
surface form: Babylonia

Nineveh
Nippur
Sumer
Ur
Uruk
developedLegalCode Code of Hammurabi
Code of Ur-Nammu
developedWritingSystem cuneiform
earliestCivilizations Akkadian civilization
Sumer
surface form: Sumerian civilization
knownAs cradle of civilization
knownFor astronomy
city-states
cuneiform script
early complex societies
early development of writing
early empires
early literature
early urbanization
irrigation agriculture
law codes
mathematics
monumental architecture
ziggurats
laterInfluenced Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece

Ancient Israel
Achaemenid Empire
surface form: Persian Empire
locatedBetween Euphrates
surface form: Euphrates River

Tigris
surface form: Tigris River
locatedIn Mesopotamia self-linksurface differs
surface form: Fertile Crescent

Middle East
surface form: Western Asia
majorDeity Anu
Enlil
Inanna
Marduk
majorRiver Euphrates
surface form: Euphrates River

Tigris
surface form: Tigris River
modernTerritoryIncludes Iran
Iraq
Syria
Turkey
partOf Ancient Near East collection
surface form: Ancient Near East
politicalStructure city-state system
primaryEconomy agriculture
trade
producedWork Epic of Gilgamesh
religionType polytheism
scriptType logophonetic script
timePeriodEnd c. 1st millennium BCE
timePeriodStart c. 4th millennium BCE
writingMedium clay tablets

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Estrangela script region Mesopotamia
Peshitta region Mesopotamia
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic region Mesopotamia
Roman–Persian Wars locatedIn Mesopotamia
Arwad tradedWith Mesopotamia
Intolerance timePeriodDepicted Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
southern Iraq locatedIn Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Southern Iraq
Tikrit historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Hazor tradeConnections Mesopotamia
Amoraic period hasMainLocation Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Amoraim activeIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Imam Ali Shrine locatedInRegion Mesopotamia
Geonim country Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Babylonian chronicles locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Babylonian Chronicles
this entity surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
Chebar canal locatedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Chebar canal locatedIn Mesopotamia
Artaxerxes I of Persia regionRuled Mesopotamia
Late Bronze Age hasLocation Mesopotamia
Iraqi Jews originatesFrom Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Iraqi Jews originatesFrom Mesopotamia
Iraqi Jews notableCenterOfTalmudicStudy Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Nehardea locatedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Nehardea locatedIn Mesopotamia
Karbala partOf Mesopotamia
King of the Four Corners of the World usedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
Iranian plateau borderedBy Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Mesopotamian plain
Iranian plateau separates Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Mesopotamia from Central Asia
Timur ruledRegion Mesopotamia
Battle of Opis theatre Mesopotamia
Mosul historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Chaldeans locatedIn Mesopotamia
Erbil ancientCivilization Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Greater Zab historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Ishtar Gate culturalRegion Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian deity Tammuz worshipRegion Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Tammuz
Mesopotamian deity Tammuz worshipRegion Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Tammuz
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Nader Shah regionOfInfluence Mesopotamia
King of Persia regionRuled Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Cyrus the Great
Shatt al-Arab historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Diyala River region Mesopotamia
Diyala River historicalRegion Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Ancient Mesopotamia
Etemenanki ziggurat locatedInRegion Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Etemenanki
Hülegü Khan realm Mesopotamia