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1. Middle East

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   Historical Context
   The Middle East hosts the Fertile Crescent, the site of early urbanization in Sumer and the subsequent rise and fall of numerous empires, including the Akkadian Empire, the Persian Achaemenid Empire, and the various Caliphates. Archaeological evidence suggests that early Mesopotamian scribes possessed an intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics, though they lacked the necessary mathematical framework to formalize it, leading to purely symbolic representat…