Mesopotamia[a] is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. It corresponds roughly to the territory of …

history of Mesopotamia, history of the region in southwestern Asia where the world’s earliest civilization developed.

Mar 14, 2018 · Unlike the more unified civilizations of Egypt or Greece, Mesopotamia was a collection of varied cultures whose only real bonds were their script, their gods, and their …

Nov 30, 2017 · Mesopotamia is located in the region now known as the Middle East, which includes parts of southwest Asia and lands around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Mesopotamia was one of the first places where humans started practicing settled agriculture, and the earliest known writing system, cuneiform, originated there as well. It is a historic region of …

Some of the major Mesopotamian civilizations include the Sumerian, Assyrian, Akkadian, and Babylonian civilizations. Evidence shows extensive use of technology, literature, legal codes, …

Sep 16, 2025 · Mesopotamia—literally “the land between rivers” in Greek—has long been called the birthplace of civilization. It was here, thousands of years ago, that humanity took some of …

Mesopotamia was a land of firsts. It was where agriculture first developed and where the first empires emerged. Mesopotamians created the first written language and the world’s first law …

More than five thousand years ago, the world's first literate and urban society arose in this region. Mesopotamia was diverse and endlessly changing.

Mesopotamian civilization has a unique place in world history. It was in Mesopotamia that the earliest cities, the first urban civilization, appeared, about 3500 BCE.