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Harps first appeared around 3000 B. C. [before Christ] in Mesopotamia and Iran. They were arched harps, probably developed from hunter's bows, and the body was made of one piece of wood. A thousand years, later, around 2000 B. C., a new type was conceived when two pieces of wood were joined at right angle, one drilled into the other. The result was the angular harp... Harp designers waited millennia before taking the next logical step : connecting the two extreme ends of the angular harp with a long rigid pillar. When they did,..., it became the frame harp(also known as the "pillar harp"), a more rigid structure that allows higher string tension and more strings.  2, record 1, English, - frame%20harp

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Record 2,  Textual support,  English

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Harps first appeared around 3000 B. C. [before Christ] in Mesopotamia and Iran. They were arched harps, probably developed from hunter's bows, and the body was made of one piece of wood. A thousand years, later, around 2000 B. C., a new type was conceived when two pieces of wood were joined at right angle, one drilled into the other. The result was the angular harp...  3, record 2, English, - angular%20harp

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Record 3,  Textual support,  English

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Ancient art refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced cultures of ancient societies with some form of writing, such as those of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Israel, Egypt, Greece and Rome.  1, record 3, English, - ancien%20art

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Ses œuvres reflètent son amour de l’art ancien, notamment de Courbet, Delacroix, Rubens, Titien et de la peinture française du XVIIIe siècle.  1, record 3, French, - art%20ancien

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The region in southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, extending from the mountains of Asia Minor on the north to the Persian Gulf on the south.  2, record 4, English, - Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia was the name of a region in ancient history; it can still be located on modern maps though the region now extends over Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. Literally, "Mesopotamia" means "a region between rivers".  3, record 4, English, - Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia is a lower region between two rivers, a kind of "river valley". Nevertheless, it is incorrect to say "Mesopotamia River Valley" because there is no river of that name making "the valley of Mesopotamia River" impossible, and because Mesopotamia is not only of a valley type of land.  3, record 4, English, - Mesopotamia

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Inhabitant: Mesopotamian. Adjective: mesopotamian (of a region between rivers); Mesopotamian (of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers).  4, record 4, English, - Mesopotamia

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

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Région de l'Asie occidentale entre le Tigre et l'Euphrate.  2, record 4, French, - M%C3%A9sopotamie

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La Mésopotamie, région dont le nom remonte à l'histoire ancienne, peut encore être localisée sur les cartes actuelles, bien que le bassin alluvial s'étendant entre le Tigre et l'Euphrate soit actuellement partagé entre l'Iraq, (qui en possède la plus grande partie), l'Iran, la Syrie et la Turquie. Littéralement, «Mésopotamie» signifie «le pays entre les deux fleuves».  3, record 4, French, - M%C3%A9sopotamie

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La Mésopotamie est une région basse entre deux fleuves. Dire «la vallée de la Mésopotamie» ne doit pas être compris comme «la vallée de la rivière Mésopotamie» puisqu'il n'existe aucune rivière ou cours d'eau de ce nom; il faut l'entendre comme «la portion de la Mésopotamie qui est une vallée, une plaine».  3, record 4, French, - M%C3%A9sopotamie

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Habitant : Mésopotamien, Mésopotamienne. Adjectif : mésopotamien, mésopotamienne.  4, record 4, French, - M%C3%A9sopotamie

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A region between rivers.  1, record 5, English, - mesopotamia

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From "Mesopotamia", in ancient history, the name given to the lower bassin extending between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. A common designation derived from a proper name.  2, record 5, English, - mesopotamia

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Pays compris entre deux fleuves (par exemple, en Amérique, du Sud, la Mésopotamie argentine, entre les fleuves Parana et Uruguay).  1, record 5, French, - m%C3%A9sopotamie

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De «Mésopotamie», région de l'histoire ancienne formée du bassin alluvial s'étendant entre les fleuves Tigre et Euphrate. Formé de «méso-» (au milieu de) et du grec «potamos» (rivière); un générique dérivé d'un spécifique.  2, record 5, French, - m%C3%A9sopotamie

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The ancient capital of Mesopotamia that first reached prominence ca. 1792 B. C., under Hammurabi.  1, record 6, English, - Babylon

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Inhabitant and adjective: Babylonian.  1, record 6, English, - Babylon

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

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Grande ville de l'Antiquité et capitale de différents royaumes. Née vers le XXIIIe siècle avant J.-C., elle connaît son apogée sous Hammourabi (1793-1750) et devient la capitale d'un vaste territoire correspondant à la Babylonie ou à la Mésopotamie. Vers le XVIIIe siècle avant J.-C., la ville devient le premier centre culturel de l'Orient. Par la suite, elle connaît des ères de grandeur et de décadence jusqu'à son saccage en 689 et 648 av. J.-C. Elle revit et atteint sa plus grande splendeur sous la dynastie «chaldéenne» (626-539). Son déclin va s'accentuant par la suite; à la fin de l'Antiquité, elle n'est plus connue que par l'activité religieuse des Juifs.  2, record 6, French, - Babylone

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Habitant : Babylonien, Babylonienne. Adjectif : babylonien, babylonienne.  3, record 6, French, - Babylone

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A language spoken by an ancient Subaraean people having a kingdom in northern Mesopotamia.  1, record 7, English, - Subarian

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Langue ancienne parlée par les Subaréens, peuple qui habitait un royaume en haute Mésopotamie au XV-XIV siècle avant Jésus-Christ.  1, record 7, French, - subar%C3%A9en

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The language spoken by the Mitani, an ancient Subaraean people having a kingdom in northern Mesopotamia.  1, record 8, English, - Mitani

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Langue parlée par les Mitanniens, peuple de Mitanni qui habitait un royaume situé en haute Mésopotamie aux XV - XIV siècles avant Jésus-Christ.  1, record 8, French, - mitannien

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Extinct Semitic language of the Northern Peripheral group, spoken in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC and written with a cuneiform script.  1, record 9, English, - Akkadian

Record 9,  Textual support,  French

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Langue sémitique ancienne, utilisée en Mésopotamie du IIIe au 1er millénaire avant Jésus-Christ. L'akkadien constitue à lui seul le rameau oriental des langues sémitiques, dont il est la langue la plus anciennement attestée.  1, record 9, French, - akkadien

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A northwest Semitic language that from c300 B. C.-A. D. 650 was a lingua franca for nearly all of southwestern Asia and was the everyday speech of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine.  1, record 10, English, - Aramaic

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Langue sémitique du groupe nord-ouest parlée principalement pendant l'Antiquité.  1, record 10, French, - aram%C3%A9en

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Extinct Semitic language of the Northern Peripheral group spoken in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium B. C.  1, record 11, English, - Accadian%20language

Record 11,  Textual support,  French

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Langue sémitique ancienne utilisée en Mésopotamie du IIIe au 1er millénaire avant Jésus-Christ  1, record 11, French, - assyro%2Dbabylonien

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