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Ancient Mesopotamian religion
Mesopotamian religion
refers to the
religious beliefs and practices
followed by the
Sumerian
and
East Semitic
Akkadian
,
Assyrian
,
Babylonian
and later migrant
Arameans
and
Chaldeans
, living in
Mesopotamia
(a region encompassing modern
Iraq
, southeast
Turkey
and northeast
Syria
) that dominated the region for a period of 4200 years from the fourth millennium BCE throughout Mesopotamia to approximately the 10th century CE in Assyria.
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Sumerian religion
The
Sumerian
religion
influenced
Mesopotamian mythology
as a whole, surviving in the mythologies and religions of the
Hurrians
,
Akkadians
,
Babylonians
,
Assyrians
, and other culture groups.
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