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This organological work was well known in academic circles of the time, and almost all textbooks printed in Turkey about how to perform on the ney mention these particular instruments. The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C.

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Mesopotamians: all people who lived until the Persian Empire in and around the arable areas between Euprates and Tigris rivers between BC– BC, where: Iraq, language: Sumer. The Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians were some of the civilizations that flourished in Mesopotamia—the land between the rivers.

What rivers are. See what archaeologists see in this fantastically photograhed guide to ancient Mesopotamia. With entries on historical fictures, religion, daily life, the afterlife and their cities, each entry features intriguing insight into the world and lives of the ancient Assyrians, Sumerians and Babylonians.

With full-page and inset photographs fully notated, this is a beautiful guide to the artifacts Pages: Although the Sumerians continue to get second or even third billing compared to the Babylonians and Assyrians, perhaps because they never built an empire as great as the Assyrians or established a *Includes primary sources from ancient records about their cultures and battles/5.Mesopotamia is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish–Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders.

The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians.