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Civilization · Early Bronze Age · MesopotamiaMesopotamiac. 5300–539 BCEMesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates, was the cradle of civilization. Farming villages grew into the first cities here, and empires rose and fell on its plains for four thousand years. Persia conquered the last of them, Babylon, in 539 BCE.