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28-08-07, 03:45 AM
MzTeacher - Mesopotamia and Sumer are really one in the same. The word Mesopotamia means land between the rivers (it's a Greek word), those rivers being the Euphrates and Tigress. Sumer was the southern-most country, Agade (the people called Akkadians) were just above, Assyria was the northern-most country. In it's time each was the premier civilization, along with Egypt, in the world. The area became known as Babylonia because the people who we will come to know as Hebrews migrated in at about 2000 B.C. Over time one of their kings named Hammurabi from the city of Babil took over, Babil later came to be called Babylon.
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