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The Persians
The last great empire in Mesopotamia, the Persians were an Indo-European people from the north of Mesopotamia. After conquering Mesopotamia, the Persians ...

Amazon.com: Persians (The Peoples of Asia): Books: Gene R. Garthwaite
Amazon.com: Persians (The Peoples of Asia): Books: Gene R. Garthwaite by Gene R. Garthwaite.

Briefs: Cats have a fascinating past
According to historians, cats were domesticated between 4,000 and 8,000 years ago in Africa and the Middle East. Small wild cats started hanging out where humans stored their grain and, when people saw these cats up close, they began to admire them for their beauty and grace as well as their rodent-catching abilities.