when did the Mesopotamian civilization die out?

Question

please answer my question because i have three weeks until my project is due, and i really can't find out when they died out. Your help will be very appreciated

Answer 1

aviophage: You are COMPLETELY wrong, the decedents of the Mesopotamians are us--the Assyrians. The Sunnis and Shites are not Mesopotamia, the Assyrians are the indigenous people of Iraq (Mesopotamia). The Muslim sects you named are simply nomadic tribes which settled in Iraq--such nomadic tribes took over Mesopotamia. The real end of the Mesopotamian civilization occurred once the Assyrian Empire fell to the Persians-after that time Assyrians accepted Christianity (1st people to do so) and were persecuted in doing so. Think of the Assyrians as the Native Americas, completely stripped from their homeland by foreign invaders, utterly sad.

Answer 2

The reason there is no mention of when Mesopotamian civilization died out is that it never did. Ancient Mesopotamia is now called Iraq, and the Shiites and the Sunnis are descendents of tribes that were fighting in Old Testament times.

Why? No more reason than there was then.

Those people have been colonized and exploited by various civilizations over the millenia. The land was given the name Iraq by the British in the early 20th Century. Now they are being exploited again by Dick Cheney and Halliburton Corp. But they still go on fighting each other, as well.

Tons of information is available on these civilizations and their history. Again, the purpose of your education is not to teach you the facts, but to teach you how to find the information you need. Go to the library and ask your librarian. Look it up on the internet. Wikipedia and a hundred other sources. It's easier than people have told you, and it can be fun.

Good luck.

Answer 3

This is from Wikipedia:

Mesopotamia is usually used to refer to an ancient area (the extent of which is described above in the Introduction) or the societies, cultures, civilizations that are associated with it, from the emergence of urbanization in Southern Iraq in the 4th millennium BC to the arrival of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC (which is seen as the hallmark of the Hellenization of the Near East, therefore supposedly marking the "end" of Mesopotamia).

I suggest you read through the whole thing, because you'll find lots of information for your project. See link below.

Answer 4

You are right. There is a problem with the time lines, and that topic has been researched on by many university students past and present. Search the internet for those papers.
Some of those papers trace the region into current Egypt and Syria, but there are discrepancies and contradictions with the ecology and geopolitics
Then there are those who say that ancient Mesopotamia had broken into nomadic tribes that eventually settled into Asia and the middle east.
Maybe they died out one kingdon at a time, with some great climactic change in the environment.

Answer 5

In ready this, it seems that Mesopotamia became Kuwait. Read on: In the early 7th century AD, the caliphs of the Arab Empire came to power in Damascus and annexed all of the Sassanid Empire. Consequently Mesopotamia was reunited under the Arabs, but governed as two provinces: northern, with Mosul (also known as Nineveh) as its capital, and southern, with Baghdad as its capital. Later Baghdad also became the caliphal capital. Baghdad was the seat of the Arab Empire until 1258. From 1508-1534 AD, the Persian Safavids took control of Mesopotamia. In 1535 AD, Ottoman Turks took over Baghdad. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, Mesopotamia was ruled as three separate vilayats, or territories: Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra, which included the territory that is now present-day Kuwait. At the end of World War I Mesopotamia was briefly occupied by the British, who set up the government of what is now present day Syria and Iraq under one Hashemite ruler. In 1920 the nation-state of Iraq was created by the British, with its present-day borders and including the territory that is now known as Kuwait.

Answer 6

Mesopotamians didnt die out,they are now called Amish and live in Arkansas.