Mesopotamia is one of the places where primitive civilization developed. It is a historic region of Western Asia within the Tigris-Euphrates river system. In fact, the word Mesopotamia means "between rivers" in Greek. Home to the ancient civilizations of Sumeria, Assyria and Babylon, these peoples are credited with influencing mathematics and astronomy.
More than five thousand years ago, the first urban and literate society in the world emerged in this region. Mesopotamia was diverse and constantly changing. After the first historical cultures of Sumeria and Akkad, the region was later dominated by the great empires of Assyria and Babylon and was in constant interaction with the contemporary cultures of Anatolia (modern Turkey), northwestern Syria, the Levant, Egypt , Iran and the Gulf.
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30 сен 2024