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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia was home to the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. It is known as the "cradle of civilization" for it was here that early forms of writing, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and agriculture were discovered. Beautiful art, crafts and architecture were created.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia (DK Eyewitness Books)
Mesopotamia (DK Eyewitness Books)
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This book is great. I use it for homeschooling my children along with The Great Courses DVD course "Between the Rivers: Mesopotamia". It is easy to match each lecture and the page number that it correlates to in this DK book. As usual, the photography is fantastic. We watch one 30 minute lecture and read one part of the book each day and along with some extra discussions, crafts, and supplemental reading, we have a two month course on Ancient History in Mesopotamia that is top notch.
Ishar Gate (now in Pergamon Museum, Berlin)
Mesopotamia (article)
Commonly known as the "Cradle of civilization", Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian Empires. In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Neo-Babylonian Empire, and later conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It mostly remained under Persian rule until the 7th century Islamic conquest of the Sassanid Empire. Under the Caliphate, the region came to be known as Iraq.
Source: Wapedia
Ziggarat at Ali Air Base, Iraq, 2005 (Photo: Hardnfast)
Good Websites on Mesopotamia
- Mesopotamia
- Excellent article on the history of Mesopotamia, written by Albrecht Socin, formerly Professor of Semitic Theology, at Leipzig University, who compiled Baedeker's Handbooks of Palestine and Syria, and was author of an Arabic grammar.
Great Civilizations of Mesopotamia
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The Babylonians
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Around 6,000 years ago in the area known as Mesopotamia (Greek for "land between the rivers"), one of the early civilizations developed. One of the cities of Mesopotamia was Babylon, founded in about 2,000 BC. Babylon was a magnificent city, a great...
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The Assyrians
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Assyria was a Middle Eastern empire in Mesopotamia ("land between the rivers") in the period c. 2500 - 612 BC. The Assyrians had an empire that, at its height, stretched from the eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf as well as including Egypt....
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The Sumerians
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The Sumerians were a nomadic people who, in about 4000 BC, settled down in the area that we now call southern Iraq. They founded a number of city states. Of these, Ur became the most powerful. The Sumerians were the first people to have left writte...
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- blastfromthepast blastfromthepast Sep 5, 2008 @ 6:16 am
- Hi CrypticFragments, Thank you for your kind comments. Can you please give me the address of your lens on Sumerian culture and history?
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- CrypticFragments CrypticFragments Sep 5, 2008 @ 12:40 am
- pretty darn good...I just published a lens on Sumerian culture and history myself!
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