Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia (Greek, "between the rivers") is the alluvial plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (in contemporary Iraq), which was home to, or conquered by, numerous ancient civilizations, including Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Akkad, Egypt, Hittites, and Elam.

These civilizations arose from earlier settlements and cultures which were among the first to make use of agriculture.

• neolithic settlements e.g., Jarmo[?], Tell Abu Hureyra
• Hassuna period[?]
• Halaf period[?] (or Halafian)
• Samarra period[?] (or Samarran), e.g., Choga Mami[?]
• Ubaid period[?], e.g., Eridu
• Uruk period[?], named after the city Uruk.
• Sumerian Early Dynastic period[?]

Cities and sites with settlements in this region in these periods include:

• Lagash
• Ur
• Nippur

See also Levant, History of Levant, Deities

External link

• The History of the Ancient Near East: http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Mesopotamia.htm

Mesopotamia is also a place in the State of Ohio in the United States of America: see Mesopotamia, Ohio[?].