Mesopotamia

board game

Royal Game of Ur

Bronze Age

Western Asia and the Near East were the first regions to enter the Bronze Age, which began with the rise of the Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BC.

city-state

civilization

Sumer

empire

Akkadian Empire

epic poem

Epic of Gilgamesh

king

Hammurabi

land between rivers

Mesopotamia encompasses the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, both of which have their headwaters in the neighboring Armenian highlands.

law

Code of Hammurabi

random

NGC 869

rivers

sheep

Sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated by humankind (although the domestication of dogs probably took place 10 to 20 thousand years earlier); the domestication date is estimated to fall between 11,000 and 9000 BC in Mesopotamia and possibly around 7000 BC in Mehrgarh in the Indus Valley.

tagged

tags

trader

Ea-nāṣir

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11767

Wikipedia

Mesopotamia (Wikipedia) Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia occupies modern Iraq. In the broader sense, the historical region included present-day Iraq and parts of present-day Iran, Kuwait, Syria and Turkey.