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WEST ASIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS

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Were the people from Babylon, the most famous city in ancient Mesopotamia whose ruins lie in modern-day Iraq.
Babylonian
Is an element of art which marks on a surface that usually varies in width, length, direction, color, and degree of curve and can be two-dimensional or implied.
Line
Also called the "black-headed ones," lived in the southern part of what is now modern-day Iraq.
Sumerians
The name is thought to derive from bav-il or bav-ilim which in the akkadian language of time, "Gate of God" or Gate of the Gods." "Babylon" is a Greek word.
Babylonian
Are the people from Egypt, a country in Africa and is among the oldest civilizations on earth
Egyptians
From the Greek word meaning "between two rivers"
Mesopotamia
Part of Iraq and also modern-day Iran, Syria, and Turkey.
Mesopotamia
Were an ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia
Assyrians
Is historically referred to some Iraqnian languages.
Persian
Dialect of Persian form the majority in Iran.
Persian
Were a major political and cultural power in ancient Iran after the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great.
Parthians
Were the last pre-islamic Persian empire, established in 224 C.E by Ardeshir I, son of Papak, descendant of Sasan.
Sasanians
The Persian art of rug weaving is embedded in the roots their culture and customs. Weavers mix elegant patterns with a number of varied colors
Persian Rugs
Is an element of art that shows the way something feels to touch (actual) or how it may lock (tactile).
Texture
Many caves in than showed painted imaginary of animals and hunting scenes dating back to five thousand years ago.
Persian Paintings
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