MESOPOTAMIA - Softcover

READE, Julian

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714120782 ISBN 13: 9780714120782

Publisher: BRITISH MUSEUM, 1999

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The foundations of westerrn civilization were laid by the ancient socieities which flourished in Mesopotamia, a land known as the "fertile crescent" through which flow the Tigris and Euphrates rivrs. The area saw some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and irrigation, the invention of writing, the birth of mathematics and the development of urban life.

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Julian Reade is an assistant keeper in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities in the British Museum.

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An attractively illustrated account of the history of Mesopotamia from the prehistoric times to the rise of Babylon, up to 1500 B.C. Drawing on archaeology and ancient texts, [Julian Reade] describes the central position of Mesopotamia in early Western civilization. It was one of the leading centers of literacy in the world, and the development of agriculture, mathematics, and cities is often traced to this Fertile Crescent. Different cultures lived and clashed in the region, in cycles of 'alternating consolidation and disintegration.' (Paula F. Rohrlick Kliatt)

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