What was the capital of Mesopotamia?
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During which time period and which part....lower/upper Mesopotamia....\n\nThere was no "capital city" but some of the major ruban centers included:\n\n1/  Sumerian Empire period - Ur\n2/  Akkadian empire - Babylon\n3/  Assyrian empire - Nineveh\n\nThere are many more important cities and great civilizations to have inhabited Mesopotamia but generally, the Sumerians were considered to be the first and the cradle of civilization....
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the capital of andhra-pradesh is Hyderabad
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Direct from Wixipedia:\n\nIt is believed that Baghdad was the largest city in the world from 775 to 935. It may have been the first city with a population above 1,000,000.[1]
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Cairo is Egypt's current capital. Memphis used to be the old capital for many centuries in ancient Egytian history.
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The first difference would be their geographical location.  Mesopotamia was located in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley.  Greece is located along the Aegean Sea.  As a result of their locations, the Mesopotamians were primarily farmers and the Greeks were mostly fishermen and herders too.  The mountainous soil of Greece made it hard to grow crops so they couldn't establish a surplus of crops and had to rely more on fishing and herding.  While both worshiped a pantheon of gods, the gods were different in that some of the Mesopotamian gods were half human and half animal.  The Greek gods weren't.  Both were city states and the two well known of the Greeks were Athens and Sparta.  If my memory serves me correctly, Ur was one of the major city states of Mesopotamia.  The Mesopotamians wrote in symbols called Sanskrit which looks like a bunch of wedged dashes and the Greeks used a letter alphabet based on the Phoenicians alphabet.   The Greeks were more advanced scientifically, militarily and philosophically. The Greeks also were the first democracy and our system of government is based on the Greeks' ideas.   However, the Mesopotamians get credit for the first written law code-- Hammurabi's Code.   I can go on and on, but I think this touches on the main differences between the two.
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Babylonian cuneiform.\n\n(This is a joke....couldn't resist)\n\nI agree with  ag_iitkgp's answer.
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Ankara.\n\nIstanbul is the largest city in Turkey, but not the capital.  Ankara, is the second largest city.
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There is a location in present-day Iraq that the locals associate with the biblical garden of Eden. (I think I saw this in National Geographic.) This is understandable since Mesopatamia is known as the cradle of civilization. Today, garden of Eden is usually understood more in a literary sense than an actual historical one.
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The largest is Tokyo, Japan.\n\nDamascus, Syria is the oldest.
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The country that is still going by the same name as when it was founded is: CHINA. It was unified under that name in about 225 B.C.E.\n\nThe oldest area of civilization is Mesopotamia, but of course it's now called Iraq. I think the first paragraph is what you meant.
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After the Hittites came to power, they took control of much of Anatolia and their first kingdom was in an area called Nesa, near Kultepe. The first capital of the Hittite Empire was at a place called Kushshar or Kussara, which has not yet been located. The earliest king mentioned in the royal archives of Hattusas was King Anittas, who began the policy of expansion. He took the area called Nesa, then Hattusas. He then made the old city of Boghazkoy the capital, and the name was changed to Hattusas. Later, for reasons not made clear, this king Anittas transferred the government to Kultepe, near Kayseri, and Hattusas was declared accursed and destroyed.
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Hammurabi (Akkadian from Amorite ˤAmmurāpi, "the kinsman is a healer," from ˤAmmu, "paternal kinsman," and Rāpi, "healer"; ca. 1810 BC?–1750 BC) also rarely transliterated Ammurapi, Hammurapi, or Khammurabi) was the sixth king of Babylon. Hammurabi is credited with achieving the conquest of Sumer and Akkad,and ending the last Sumerian dynasty of Isin. He was the first king of the Babylonian Empire, giving Babylon hegemony over Mesopotamia.\nHammurabi expanded the rule of Babylon by first conquering cities towards the south, before his conquest expanded to cover most parts of Mesopotamia. His military conquests came late in his reign, perhaps brought on by the fall of the empire of Shamshi-Adad I. Hammurabi is also credited with improving irrigation in Babylon.\n\n The upper part of the stela of Hammurabi's code of lawsHammurabi is perhaps best known for his promulgation of the new code of Babylonian law–the Code of Hammurabi. This was written on a stela and placed in a public place, so that all could see it, although it is thought that few were literate. This stela was removed as plunder to the Elamite capital Susa, where it was rediscovered in 1901 and now stands in the Louvre Museum. While the penalties of his laws may seem cruel to modern readers, the fact that he not only put into writing the laws of his kingdom, but attempted to make them a systematic whole, is considered an important step forward in the evolution of civilization. The code is also one of the earliest examples of the idea of presumption of innocence.\n\nFollowing Hammurabi's successors, the Babylonian Empire collapsed due to military pressure from the Hittites, led by their king Mursili I. However it was the Kassites, led by their king Agumkakrine, who eventually ruled Babylon. Although there were many rebellious cities, the Kassites ruled for 400 years, and respected the Code of Hammurabi.\nBecause of the legacy of Hammurabi as a lawgiver, Hammurabi is depicted in several U.S. government buildings. Hammurabi in one of the 23 lawgivers depicted in marble bas-reliefs in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in the United States Capitol.[1] An image of Hammurabi receiving the Code of Hammurabi from the Babylonian sun god (probably Shamash) is depicted on the frieze on the south wall of the U.S. Supreme Court building.[2]
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Hena: One of the cities of Mesopotamia destroyed by sennacherib (Kg2 18:34; Kg2 19:13). It is identified with the modern Anah, lying on the right bank of the Euphrates, not far from Sepharvaim. (from http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/ebd/ebd174.htm)\n\nhttp://www.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T4271
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Damascus is the capital of Syria
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babylon, garden of eden, mesopatamia, alot of biblical places mentioned in the bible were what is now iraq
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the rivers are tigris and euphrates.it is the cardle of civilisations.for the first states,governments in the history were in there.it is the land of sumer,akad,uruk,babylon,assyriya(nainavah & nimrud).it is where writing,the wheel,agriculture was invented.where the first laws and constitutions were written.it is the present time iraq whose capital baghdad was rulling most of the known world then(from south france to china),when america was not known,didnt even have a name,and didnt have a single brick.
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There is a lot of speculation about where the Garden of Eden was located. I've not drawn any conclusions yet as to the exact location, but it very well could have been in Mesopotamia.