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Mesopotamian Art and Arquitecture
Title: Mesopotamian Art and Arquitecture
Category: Arts & Humanities
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Mesopotamian Art and Arquitecture
Mesopotamian Art and Architecture
The arts and buildings of the ancient Middle Eastern
civilizations developed in the area (now Iraq) between the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers from prehistory to the 6th
century BC. Their art reflects both their love and fear of
natural forces, as well as their military conquests.
The soil of Mesopotamia yielded the civilization's
major building material, mud brick. This clay also was used
by the Mesopotamians for their pottery, terra-cotta
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Persian Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great. Mesopotamia
beame part of the Persian Empire, and a royal palace was
built at Babylon, which was made one of the empire's
administrative capitals. Among the remains from Babylon
of the time of Alexander the Great, is a theater he built at
the site known now as Humra. The brilliance of Babylon
was ended about 250 BC when the inhabitants of Babylon
moved to Seleucia, built by Alexander's successors.
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