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The 51 pages that link to Mesopotamia, each with the reason it gives.

• State formationBroader topic: Its early city-states provide evidence for political institutions growing alongside urban life.

• Fertile CrescentBroader topic: It forms the eastern core of the Fertile Crescent.

• Ancient Near EastBroader topic: It forms the region’s eastern core and includes many of its earliest states.

• AdobeBroader topic: Mudbrick was a widespread building material in its ancient cities.

• Ottoman–Safavid relationsBroader topic: Its fertile lands and routes linked imperial competition to control of Iraq.

• Mithridates I of ParthiaBroader topic: Mithridates’s western expansion brought Parthian power into this region.

• Urban revolutionBroader topic: Its river valleys supported dense settlement and early urban institutions.

• West AsiaBroader topic: It was a major early center of cities, states, and writing within West Asia.

• History of the Middle EastBroader topic: Its cities and kingdoms established early traditions of urban life, writing, and imperial rule.

• Near EastBroader topic: Its ancient and modern geography lies within many Near Eastern definitions.

• Cradle of civilizationBroader topic: Its early urban societies make it the designation’s most familiar example.