Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Mesopotamia, the region between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in Asia, north of Babylonia. The name is sometimes extended to include Babylonia also.
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Examples
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Below it, on the "mesopotamian" plain, lay the foundations of houses still showing their cemented floors.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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“The mesopotamian mongrels guilty of such a criminal film as ALL QUIET were bound to over-reach themselves some time, and this looks like the time,” he wrote.
Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
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Well Crimso, Blacks in America had a better life than bronze age slaves in a mesopotamian dictatorship...huzzah!
Barack Obama responds to the criticism over Jeremiah Wright. Ann Althouse 2008
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"The mesopotamian mongrels guilty of such a criminal film as ALL QUIET were bound to over-reach themselves some time, and this looks like the time," he wrote.
'Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization' 2008
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Blacks in America had a better life than bronze age slaves in a mesopotamian dictatorship
Barack Obama responds to the criticism over Jeremiah Wright. Ann Althouse 2008
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The truth is, from mesopotamian society through to modern times, humans have indulged in every kind of sexual behavior — adultery, homosexuality, transgenderism, exhibitionism, prostitution, sadism/masochism, zoophilia, necrophilia — so those rules a million years in the making have been broken every day for the entirety of recorded human history. birth control was leaving unwanted children on a mountain to die of exposure.
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I was just wondering if AL had realized, that his/her repeated mentionings of the mesopotamian guy's partisan CV in order to discredit the guy on that basis, that AL him/herself should then in view of his/her obvious partisanship rightfully be discredited also, on that same basis.
Oh, noooo! I'm in the future! Ann Althouse 2006
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Sumerians never died out, there language became infused with the Akkadian language a new language in the mesopotamian region at the time that was built of sumerian, which has vast simularitys, not the same but also, not too far off. and also, trust me, if they can do half the shit they do, then they can speak a language theyve never heard. its called mathematics.
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“mesopotamian” plain, lay the foundations of houses still showing their cemented floors.
The Land of Midian 2003
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I’ve also read mesopotamian myths that have survived including the Avesta from the Zoroastrians which serves as a foundation of Judaism combined of course with the cult of Amun (the egyptian cult of the one god).
Think Progress » As New Orleans Drowned, Chertoff Was Focused On Avian Flu and Immigration 2005
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