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Wikipedia: Mesopotamia (from Greek Μεσοποταμία " between the rivers", rendered in Arabic as بلاد الرافدين bilād al-rāfidayn) is a toponym for the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq, as well as some parts of northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khūzestān Province of southwestern Iran. Widely considered as the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires.
![[The Babylonian marriage market, in the Royal Holloway College.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Babylonian_marriage_market_s.jpg "The Babylonian marriage market, in the Royal Holloway College.")
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![[Trends in Mesopotamian History]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/MesopotamiaTrends_s.jpg "Trends in Mesopotamian History")
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![[Assyrian soldiers, from a plate in THE HISTORY OF COSTUME by Braun & Schneider]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/PLATE3BX_s.jpg "Assyrian soldiers, from a plate in THE HISTORY OF COSTUME by Braun & Schneider")
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