![]() It has been identified as having "inspired some of the most important developments in human history, including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops, and the development of cursive script, mathematics, astronomy, and agriculture". ![]() Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 BC. Later the Arameans dominated major parts of Mesopotamia ( c. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) originating from different areas in present-day Iraq, dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history ( c. ![]() In the broader sense, the historical region included present-day Iraq and Kuwait and parts of present-day Iran, Syria and Turkey. Mesopotamia ( Ancient Greek: Μεσοποταμία Mesopotamíā Arabic: بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن Bilād ar-Rāfidayn or بَيْنُ ٱلْنَهْرَيْن Bayn ul-Nahrayn Classical Syriac: ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, Ārām-Nahrēn or ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, Bēṯ Nahrēn) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. ![]()
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