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Well, Mesopotamia itself was/is not an empire, it is a place, a geographic area; essentially what is presently the country of Iraq. The name is Greek, meaning "between two rivers" (the Tigris & Euphrates). The area has often been called the "Cradle of Civilization" as some of the world's oldest began there c. 8000+ years ago. The advanced civilization of the Sumerians is the most notable & important of the early cultures in this area (which are thought by some eminent scholars to have originated out of the area of India, though no one seems to really know). Whatever, over the millennia, the area became part of the empires of many other great cultures, the Assyrians the Babylonians the Greeks, the Ottomans, etc. ...

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