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  • '''Gondēshāpūr''' was the intellectual center of the [[Sassanid]] empire and the home of the ''[[Academy of Gundishapur]]''. ...deshapur was home to a teaching hospital, and also comprised a [[library]] and a [[Ancient center of higher learning|centre of higher learning]]. It has b
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  • [[File:N-Mesopotamia and Syria english.svg|320px|thumb|right|Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia]] ...n section of [[Syria]] and to a much lesser extent southeastern [[Turkey]] and smaller parts of southwestern [[Iran]].
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  • ...pire, succeeding the earlier [[Akkadian Empire]], [[Neo-Sumerian Empire]], and [[Assyria#Old Assyrian Kingdom|Old Assyrian Empire]]; however, the Babyloni ...n traditions played a major role in Babylonian (and [[Assyria]]n) culture, and the region would remain an important cultural center, even under protracted
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  • ...a]] of the [[Middle East]] and [[Egypt]] in the late [[Bronze Age|Bronze]] and early [[Iron Age]]s. ...e, in Roger D. Woodard, ed., ''The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum'', Cambridge University Press, 2008, p.83</ref> it used the [[cuneifo
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