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Akkadians, an ancient people who inhabited a region of lower Mesopotamia known as Akkad, so called from their capital city (Accad in the Bible; Agade in inscriptions).
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Ancient Asia boasted a multitude of nations and cultures. Read your way across Asia by exploring the Ancient Asian Peoples and Empires.
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Babylonia
Babylonia, an ancient country that occupied the area of southwestern Asia that is now Iraq. See more »
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Ancient Persia
Persia, the name by which Iran was known until 1935. This article deals with the people, culture, and history of Persia up to that time. See more »
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Asia Minor
Asia Minor, or Anatolia, the peninsula in western Asia that is now occupied by Turkey. See more »
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Assyria
Assyria, one of the great empires of the ancient world, located in western Asia. Assyria originally encompassed only the foothill region between the Tigris River and the Zagros Mountains (now northern Iraq). See more »
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Akkadians
Akkadians, an ancient people who inhabited a region of lower Mesopotamia known as Akkad, so called from their capital city (Accad in the Bible; Agade in inscriptions). See more »
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Ammonites
Ammonites, an ancient Semitic people often at war with the Hebrews. They lived east of the Jordan River. See more »
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Amorites
Amorites, an ancient Semitic people who moved from the desert into the Fertile Crescent about 2500 b.c. See more »
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Aramaeans
Aramaeans, or Arameans, an ancient Semitic people whose language, Aramaic, was for a long time the most widely spoken tongue in the Middle East. See more »
