Mesopotamian Civilization /മെസപ്പൊട്ടേമിയന് സംസ്കാരം
Mesopotamia between rivers"; is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates
river system, corresponding to
modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, the northeastern section of Syria and to a much lesser extent
southeasternTurkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran.
Widely considered to be the cradle
of civilization in the West, Bronze
Age Mesopotamia
included Sumer and the Akkadian,Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. In the Iron Age, it was controlled by theNeo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian
empires. The indigenous
Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated
Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of
Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it
became part of the Greek Seleucid
Empire.
Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under
the control of the Parthians. Mesopotamia
became a battleground between theRomans and Parthians, with parts of Mesopotamia
coming under ephemeral Roman control. In AD 226, it fell to the Sassanid
Persians and remained under Persian rule until the 7th-century Arab Islamic
conquest of
the Sassanid Empire. A number of primarily neo Assyrian
and Christian native Mesopotamian states existed between the 1st century BC and
3rd century AD, including Adiabene, Osroene, and Hatra.
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