Laws of commercial transactions in the civilization of Mesopotamia

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Higher Institute of Ancient Far East Civilizations - Zagazig University (Egypt)

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Mesopotamia is geographically located in the southwestern part of the continent of Asia, and because it was a crossroads of trade routes connecting the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, the Far East and India ,many human migrations came to it for settlement. Since the fourth millennium BC, the last of them were the Arab tribes, to which the vast majority of the population returns today, and part of them migrated to the rest of the Fertile Crescent. This phenomenon has increased since the seventh century AD with the beginning of the Islamic conquests. Eastern and Northeastern regions.
 

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