Mesopotamia Quotes

• Mesopotamia
  will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

  Hammurabi

  War, Cities, Together

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• It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly in other regions. Greek science was less an invention than a revival.

  George Sarton

  Egypt, Miracle, Greek

  George Sarton (2012). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

  T. E. Lawrence

  People, Honor, England

  "Report on Mesopotamia". The Sunday Times, August 22, 1920.

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• From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Order, Government, Ottomans

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• The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.

  Immortal Technique

  Dark, Moon, Age

  Song: The Point Of No Return

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