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    Music was ubiquitous throughout Mesopotamian history, playing important roles in both religious and secular contexts. Mesopotamia is of particular interest...
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    Mesopotamia Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent...
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    The history of Mesopotamia ranges from the earliest human occupation in the Paleolithic period up to Late antiquity. This history is pieced together from...
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    The prehistory of Mesopotamia is the period between the Paleolithic and the emergence of writing in the area of the Fertile Crescent around the Tigris...
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    The architecture of Mesopotamia is ancient architecture of the region of the Tigris–Euphrates river system (also known as Mesopotamia), encompassing several...
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    Upper Mesopotamia constitutes the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle...
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    The geography of Mesopotamia, encompassing its ethnology and history, centered on the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. While the southern is...
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    The music of Iraq or Iraqi music, (Arabic: موسيقى عراقية), also known as the music of Mesopotamia, encompasses the music of a number of ethnic groups...
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    Art of Mesopotamia The art of Mesopotamia has survived in the record from early hunter-gatherer societies (8th millennium BC) on to the Bronze Age cultures...
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    Pythagorean tuning (category Music of Greece)
    which is ≈ 702 cents wide. The system dates to Ancient Mesopotamia; see Music of Mesopotamia § Music theory. The system is named, and has been widely misattributed...
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    Assyria (redirect from Rise of Assyria)
    of both churches in 1997. Ancient Near East Chronology of the ancient Near East History of Mesopotamia Geography of Mesopotamia Music of Mesopotamia List...
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    fifths (so-called Pythagorean tuning) dates to Ancient Mesopotamia; see Music of Mesopotamia § Music theory, though they did not extend this to a twelve...
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  • Mesopotamia is an EP by American new wave band the B-52's, released in 1982. It was produced by David Byrne of Talking Heads and was originally planned...
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    Mesopotamia was the name of a Roman province, initially a short-lived creation of the Roman emperor Trajan in 116–117 and then re-established by Emperor...
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  • Arabic pop music Egyptian contemporary art Music of Mesopotamia Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). Culture and Customs of Egypt. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 117&153...
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    creation and the cosmos, the origin of man, and so forth) and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria...
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    millennia. The first musical notation system, the Music of Mesopotamia system, was created 4,000 years ago. Guido of Arezzo introduced Latin musical notation in...
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    Ziggurat (category Archaeology of Iraq)
    ancient Mesopotamia. It has the form of a terraced compound of successively receding storeys or levels. Notable ziggurats include the Great Ziggurat of Ur...
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    important theme of Pourshariati's study is a re-evaluation of the traditional timeline. Pourshariati argues that the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia "took place...
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    Middle Persian and possibly Parthian as well. The religious demography of Mesopotamia was very diverse during Late Antiquity. From the 1st and 2nd centuries...
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    La Mesopotamia or Región Mesopotámica is the humid and verdant area of northeast Argentina, comprising the provinces of Misiones, Entre Ríos, and Corrientes...
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  • Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia...
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    Chaldean Catholics (category History of Eastern Catholicism)
    was formed in Upper Mesopotamia in the 16th and 17th centuries, arising from groups of the Church of the East who, after the schism of 1552, entered into...
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    Assyrians are an indigenous ethnic group native to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia. Modern Assyrians descend directly from Ancient Mesopotamians...
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  • History of music Timeline of musical events – Prehistoric music Ancient music Music in ancient India Music of Mesopotamia Music of ancient Greece Music of ancient...
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    Indus–Mesopotamia relations Indus–Mesopotamia relations are thought to have developed during the second half of 3rd millennium BCE, until they came to...
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    Assyria, was a geographical area within the Achaemenid Empire in Upper Mesopotamia from 539 to 330 BC as a military protectorate state. Although sometimes...
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    The Arab conquest of Mesopotamia was carried out by the Rashidun Caliphate from 633 to 638 AD. The Arab Muslim forces of Caliph Umar first attacked Sasanian...
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  • is Pythagorean tuning: This tuning dates to Ancient Mesopotamia (see Music of Mesopotamia § Music theory), and was done by alternating ascending fifths...
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    Ancient Church of the East is an Eastern Christian denomination. It branched from the Assyrian Church of the East in 1964, under the leadership of Mar Toma...
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