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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Tigris–Euphrates river system supportedCivilization Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Ancient Mesopotamia
Amel-Marduk regionRuled Mesopotamia
Neriglissar regionRuled Mesopotamia
Dicle majorRiverOf Mesopotamia
Dicle hasHistoricalSignificanceFor Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Mesopotamian civilizations
Dicle associatedWith Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
Sippar locatedIn Mesopotamia
Sippar locatedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Labashi-Marduk kingdom Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Labashi-Marduk historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Nabopolassar region Mesopotamia
Mongol conquests territoryIncludes Mesopotamia
Nabonidus historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Asiatic lion historicalRange Mesopotamia
Asian campaign location Mesopotamia
Anabasis settingPlace Mesopotamia
army of Cyrus the Younger operatedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Battle of Gaugamela location Mesopotamia
Sura locatedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Dijla majorRiverOf Mesopotamia
Dijla historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Parthian Empire locatedIn Mesopotamia
Lebanon Mountains timberExportedTo Mesopotamia
Sasanian Empire territory Mesopotamia
Ugarit tradedWith Mesopotamia
Amorites region Mesopotamia
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī deathPlace Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī placeOfActivity Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Kitāb al-Amānāt wa-l-Iʿtiqādāt placeOfComposition Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Tafsir of the Torah placeOfOrigin Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Sefer ha-Galuy countryOfOrigin Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Neo-Assyrian expansion hasLocation Mesopotamia
annals of Tiglath-Pileser III historicalRegion Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III
Babylonian polytheism practicedIn Mesopotamia
Babylonian polytheism practicedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
King of the Universe region Mesopotamia
Hormuzd Rassam associatedWith Mesopotamia
Masorah geographicRegion Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Tannaitic period location Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Al-Furāt historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Al-Furāt associatedWith Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Capture of Baghdad (1917) location Mesopotamia
Capture of Baghdad (1917) region Mesopotamia