Examples of Mesopotamia in the following topics:
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- Following the disintegration of the Akkadian Empire, the Sumerians rose up with the Third Dynasty of Ur in the late 22nd century BCE, and ejected the barbarian Gutians from southern Mesopotamia.
- Hammurabi freed Babylon from Elamite dominance, and then conquered the whole of southern Mesopotamia, bringing stability and the name of Babylonia to the region.
- Hammurabi also entered into a protracted war with the Old Assyrian Empire for control of Mesopotamia and the Near East.
- The city of Babylon became known as a "holy city," where any legitimate ruler of southern Mesopotamia had to be crowned.
- Despite Hammurabi's various military successes, southern Mesopotamia had no natural, defensible boundaries, which made it vulnerable to attack.
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- The Babylonian and Assyrian empires in Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium BCE were renowned for their sculpture and architecture.
- They were both located in Mesopotamia; the former in the south and the latter in the north.
- The art of Mesopotamia during this period is sometimes summarized as Assyro-Babylonian, because of the close cultural interdependence of the two political centers.
- While Assyrian artists were greatly influenced by the Babylonian style, a distinctly Assyrian artistic style began to emerge in Mesopotamia around 1500 BC .
- The kingdom of Elam was located east of Mesopotamia and Chogha Zanbil is located in present-day Iran--one of the few ziggurats outside Mesopotamia.
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- Although ceramics developed in East Asia c. 20,000-10,000 BCE, the practice of throwing arose with the invention of the potter's wheel in Mesopotamia around the fourth millennium BCE.
- The Ubaid period is marked by a distinctive style of fine quality painted pottery which spread throughout Mesopotamia.
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- The city-state of Ur in Mesopotamia was important and wealthy, and featured highly centralized bureaucracy.
- Ur was a major Sumerian city-state located in Mesopotamia, marked today by Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq.
- This map shows Mesopotamia in the third millennium BCE, with Ur in the south.
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- The ancient Near East was home to the earliest civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East and included Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Iran, the Levant and the Arabian peninsula.
- Definitions of the area vary slightly, but always include Mesopotamia and the land around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, with portions of Iran, Kuwait, Turkey and the Levantine coast including Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and the West Bank.
- Beginning around 6400 BC, this period is characterized by the emergence of distinctive cultures throughout the Fertile Crescent, such as the Halafian (Turkey, Syria, Northern Mesopotamia) and Ubaid (Southern Mesopotamia) cultures.
- The Ubaid culture flourished from about 6500 to 3800 BC in Mesopotamia and is characterized by large village settlements that employed multi-room rectangular mud-brick houses.
- The appearance of the first temples in Mesopotamia, as well as greenish pottery decorated with geometric designs in brown or black paint, are important developments of this period .
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- Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Iraq.
- Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Iraq.
- Archaeological evidence suggests that around the nineteenth century BCE, much of Mesopotamia was occupied by Amorites, nomadic tribes from the northern Levant.
- The Amorites, unlike the Sumerians and Akkadian Semites, were not native to Mesopotamia, but were semi-nomadic Semitic invaders from the lands to the west.
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- Sumer was an ancient civilization in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages.
- During this time, the first settlement in southern Mesopotamia was established at Eridu by farmers who first pioneered irrigation agriculture.
- By the time of the Uruk period (ca. 4100–2900 BCE), the volume of trade goods transported along the canals and rivers of southern Mesopotamia facilitated the rise of many large, stratified, temple-centered cities where centralized administrations employed specialized workers.
- Cities became walled and increased in size as undefended villages in southern Mesopotamia disappeared.
- Discuss the historical importance of the various civilizations that existed in Mesopotamia
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- Centered on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia (northern Iraq, northeast Syria, and southeastern Turkey), the Assyrians came to rule powerful empires at several times, the last of which grew to be the largest and most powerful empire the world had yet seen.
- Ashur was originally one of a number of Akkadian city states in Mesopotamia.
- In the late 24th century BCE, Assyrian kings were regional leaders under Sargon of Akkad, who united all the Akkadian Semites and Sumerian-speaking peoples of Mesopotamia under the Akkadian Empire (c. 2334 BC-2154 BCE).
- Under king Ilushuma, it asserted itself over southern Mesopotamia.
- After its fall (between 612-605 BCE), Assyria remained a province and geo-political entity under the Babylonian, Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Roman, and Sassanid Empires, until the Arab Islamic invasion and conquest of Mesopotamia in the mid-7th century CE when it was finally dissolved.
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- Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia.
- Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia at the end of the third millennium BCE .
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- As in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus River valley, civilization in China developed around a great river.
- These phenomena took place in China about 1000 years later than in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus River valley.
- While these events are mythological, at the root of them may be ancient memories of very early kings and rulers who emerged among the prehistoric Chinese, similar to the tales of Gilgamesh in Mesopotamia.