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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British Indian Army 6th (Poona) Division geographicFocus Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq)
Emperor Gordian III deathPlace Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Gordian III
Buyid dynasty region Mesopotamia
Seleucid Empire territoryIncludes Mesopotamia
Exilarch David ben Zakkai region Mesopotamia
subject surface form: David ben Zakkai
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Exilarch David ben Zakkai placeOfActivity Mesopotamia
subject surface form: David ben Zakkai
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Exilarch David ben Zakkai historicalRegion Mesopotamia
subject surface form: David ben Zakkai
daric circulatedIn Mesopotamia
Royal Road crosses Mesopotamia
Iraqi alluvial plain partOf Mesopotamia
Iraq revolt of 1920 location Mesopotamia
Hellenistic art developedIn Mesopotamia
Manichaeism placeOfOrigin Mesopotamia
Battle of Qurna (1914) location Mesopotamia
Ottoman 6th Army areaOfOperations Mesopotamia
Antiochus IV Epiphanes regionRuled Mesopotamia
Nur-ud-Din Pasha militaryTheater Mesopotamia
Battle of Shaiba (1915) location Mesopotamia
Khalil Pasha placeOfActivity Mesopotamia
Balikh River partOf Mesopotamia
Nasiriyah historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Third Syrian War mainTheater Mesopotamia
Zodiac hasCulturalOrigin Mesopotamia
Xerxes I territoryRuled Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Utnapishtim timePeriod Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Ancient Mesopotamia
Decree of Union with the Chaldeans and Maronites geographicalScope Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Mesopotamian region
Artaxerxes II realm Mesopotamia
Mandaic region Mesopotamia
Targums developedInRegion Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Mandaeism historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Artaxerxes III ruledTerritory Mesopotamia
Khabur River partOf Mesopotamia
Akkadians region Mesopotamia
Babylonians locatedIn Mesopotamia
Adhaim River locatedIn Mesopotamia
Isaac of Nineveh regionOfActivity Mesopotamia
Persian culture influencedBy Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Ancient Mesopotamian cultures
Persian culture geographicSpread Mesopotamia
Department of the Middle East fieldOfWork Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
Iberian War hasLocation Mesopotamia
Belšar-uṣur region Mesopotamia
Processional Way locatedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: ancient Mesopotamia