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Ang Mesopotamia (Griyego: Μεσοποταμία, isinalin mula sa Sinaunang Persa na Miyanrudan "Lupain sa pagitan ng dalawang Ilog"; sa pangalang Arameo na Beth-Nahrain "Bahay sa Dalawang Ilog"), ay isang lugar sa Timog-kanlurang Asya.Ito ang Iraq at kanlurang Syria sa kasalukuyan.
Along with Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia was the birthplace of civilization. But, unlike Egypt, Mesopotamia was the home of not one but a succession of glorious civiliza-tions—the civilizations of Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria—that together flourished for more than three millennia from about 3500 to 500 B.C.E. It was Sumerian mathematicians ...
6 maj 2024 · History of Mesopotamia, the region in southwestern Asia where the world’s earliest civilization developed. Centered between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the region in ancient times was home to several civilizations, including the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians.
Mesopotamia is thought to be one of the places where early civilization developed. It is a historic region of West Asia within the Tigris-Euphrates river system. In fact, the word Mesopotamia means "between rivers" in Greek.
1 Introduction. The term ‘ancient Mesopotamia’ refers to the land of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys, including all of Iraq as well as parts of modern Turkey and Syria, to several millennia of written history and to several further millennia of social, economic, cultural, and religious life prior to writing's first appearance in the region.
Languages, describes the ancient languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Aksum, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language.
The principal languages of ancient Mesopotamia were Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian (together sometimes known as 'Akkadian'), Amorite, and - later - Aramaic. They have come down to us in the "cuneiform" (i.e. wedge-shaped) script, deciphered by Henry Rawlinson and other scholars in the 1850s.
