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Zoro came from Eran Wej in what is now Western Iran, whilst Abe came from the city of Ur, which is now in Eastern Iraq. Pretty close geographically. However, if you accept traditional dating, the youngest given for Abe's departure from Ur is 2000 BC, while the oldest date given for Zoro's life and times is 1000 BC. Therefore, maybe both dudes were borrowing from earlier sources common to their region of birth. Epic of Gilgamesh refers to a mythic God/King who may have been modeled on an actual King who lived about 2700 BC.
Maybe it was all just in the Zeitgeist of the Mesopotamian regions in the millennial before the common era.
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