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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Simele region Mesopotamia
West Syriac script region Mesopotamia
Lower Mesopotamia partOf Mesopotamia
Basra Canal region Mesopotamia
Iraqi Marsh Arabs historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Tell el-Muqayyar locatedIn Mesopotamia
Tell el-Muqayyar partOf Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
Ur Kasdim country Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
World Heritage Site (Ur) locatedInRegion Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Ur
Shammar culturalArea Mesopotamia
ancient trade route Via Maris connects Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Via Maris
King's Highway (ancient route) culturalContext Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Mesopotamian civilizations
Sin-leqi-unninni placeOfActivity Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Sin-leqi-unninni region Mesopotamia
Abu Dulaf Mosque locatedIn Mesopotamia
Bilad al-Sham@ar borderedBy Mesopotamia
subject surface form: Bilad al-Sham
Marajil geographicalContext Mesopotamia
Orhay historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Serto script geographicUsage Mesopotamia
Siege of Edessa (161–162) region Mesopotamia
Capture of Ctesiphon (165) historicalRegion Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Malwiya Minaret region Mesopotamia
Madnhaya script region Mesopotamia
East Syriac rite historicalCenter Mesopotamia
East Syriac rite geographicSpread Mesopotamia
Anastasian War involvedRegion Mesopotamia
Battle of Carrhae location Mesopotamia
Terah associatedWithRegion Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian religion practicedIn Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian religion practicedIn Mesopotamia
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Battle of Edessa (260) location Mesopotamia
Phoenix dactylifera nativeTo Mesopotamia
Battle of Kut location Mesopotamia
Ottoman period appliesToTerritory Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent hasPart Mesopotamia
Central Marshes historicalRegion Mesopotamia
Samawah hasCoordinateRegion Mesopotamia
Marsh Arabs historicalRegion Mesopotamia
tarmida regionHistorically Mesopotamia