Mesopotamia Definition & Meaning

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Traditionally historians date the first written words to proto-cuneiform scripts made around 5,000 years ago in ancient Iraq, or Mesopotamia.

From BBC

Even so, the overall information density of the Paleolithic signs closely matches that of the earliest proto-cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, which emerged about 40,000 years later.

From Science Daily

He took another social studies test, about Mesopotamia and Babylon this time.

From Literature

It is not until the sixth century B.C., when Achaemenid Persians conquered Mesopotamia and much of the Eastern Mediterranean, that dimly perceptible Carthaginians come into view.

From The Wall Street Journal

“You cannot hurt her. She is made of ancient stuff. She was alive in Mesopotamia, four thousand years ago.”

From Literature