CIVILIZATION
ASSYRIAN
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the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
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The Persian Gulf and the Red Sea
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The Red Sea and the Black Sea
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The Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mesopotamia-“the land between two rivers”-gave birth to many of the world’s first great cities. The splendid city of Babylon, located between the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris some 97 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad, was one of them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Trade was critical to Old Babylonia, where many highly prized natural resources were scarce but agricultural goods were in surplus. A vibrant trading system developed, bringing manufactured goods and raw materials from as far as Turkey, and even India, 1, 500 miles away.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the beginning of the sixth century BCE, the trade route that would later be known as Silk Road started in Babylon, from where it passed through Opis/Ctesiphon, Ecbatana (Hamadân) and modern Sâveh-the place where Marco Polo would one day see the tombs of the three Magi who had visited Jesus of Nazareth.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Babylonian civilization of Mesopotamia dates to around 2000 BCE and was located in the region between the two rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Prior to this the Sumerian civilization flourished here from around 3500 BCE.