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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Hillah, Iraq locatedInHistoricalRegion Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Hillah
Middle Iranian languages usedIn Mesopotamia
Ctesiphon locatedIn Mesopotamia
War in the Garden of Eden setting Mesopotamia
Hammurabi civilization Mesopotamia
central Iraq historicalRegionOverlap Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Sunni Triangle locatedIn Mesopotamia
Hit historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Achaemenid kings territoryIncludes Mesopotamia
Pahlavi script region Mesopotamia
Babylonian cantillation developedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Babylonian cantillation region Mesopotamia
Mongol Empire territoryIncludes Mesopotamia
Antiochus I territoryRuled Mesopotamia
Seleucus I Nicator ruled Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Seleucus I Nicator ruled Mesopotamia
Eastern Aramaic historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Eastern Aramaic historicalRegion Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
the East hasTraditionalLocationNear Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Indus seals tradedTo Mesopotamia
Manichaean script placeOfOrigin Mesopotamia
Imperial Aramaic usedIn Mesopotamia
Arameans region Mesopotamia
Near Eastern art hasRegion Mesopotamia
Muslim conquest of Persia location Mesopotamia
Upper Mesopotamia partOf Mesopotamia
Sophene locatedBetween Mesopotamia
Sophene bordered Mesopotamia
Sophene locatedNorthOf Mesopotamia
Sumerian language nativeTo Mesopotamia
Mandaic alphabet region Mesopotamia
Syriac alphabet regionOfUse Mesopotamia
Early Muslim conquests location Mesopotamia
Nergal worshipedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Ancient Mesopotamia
Nergal worshipedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
northern Syria historicallyConnectedTo Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Northern Syria
Al-Jazira region partOf Mesopotamia
Ancient Near East includesRegion Mesopotamia
Atargatis worshipRegion Mesopotamia
Buyid period locatedIn Mesopotamia