Can someone help me find a good article on modern Mesopotamia?

Question

I'm having a hard time finding an article on modern Mesopotamia, can someone help me find one?

Answer 1

Heres the article from Encarta Encyclopedia:
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559228_2/Mesopotamia.html#s5

And another site that may help you:
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0859584.html

Answer 2

Mesopotamia was settled, and conquered, by numerous ancient civilizations:


Mesopotamia was home to some of the oldest major ancient civilizations, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians.In 5000 BC, the Sumerians arrived in Mesopotamia. The Semites arrived in 2900 BC and by 2000 BC they had mixed peacefully with the Sumerians and had assumed political dominance.

The Mitanni were an eastern Indo-European people (belonging to the linguistic "satem" group) who settled in northern Mesopotamia circa 1600 BC South-East of Turkey and by circa 1450 BC established a medium-size empire east, north and west, and temporarily made tributary vassals out of kings in the west, even as far as Kafti (minoic Crete) and making them a major threat for the Pharaoh.

By 1300 BC they had been reduced to their homeland and the status of vassal of the Hatti (the Hittites), a western Indo-European people (belonging to the linguistic "kentum" group) who dominated most of Asia Minor from their capital of Hattutshash (modern Turkey) and threatened Egypt even more.

Meanwhile the Kassites established a strong realm, Sangar, in southern Mesopotamia, with Babel as its capital, not touched by Mitanni or Hittites. But the Elamites threatened or invaded them.

Chaldaean New Babylonia circa 600 BC.
Later History


The region ceased to be a major power house since its inclusion in the Persian Empire of the Achaemenids, apparently as two satrapies, Babylonia in the south and Athura (from Assyria) in the north.

After the conquest of all Persia by the Hellenizing Macedonian king Alexander the Great, the satrapies were part of the major diadochy, the Seleucid Empire, almost until its elimination by Greater Armenia in 42 BC.

Most of Mesopotamia then became part of the Parthian Empire of the Arsakides.
However part, in the northwest, became Roman. Under the Tetrarchy, this was divided into two provinces, called Osrhoene (around Edessa; roughly the modern-day border between Turkey and Syria) and Mesopotamia (a bit more northeast).


During the time of the Persian Empire of Sassanids, their much larger share of Mesopotamia was called Dil-i Iranshahr meaning "Iran's Heart" and the metropol Ctesiphon (facing ancient Seleukia across the Tigris), the capital of Persia, was situated in Mesopotamia.

Since the early caliphs annexed all Persia and advanced even further, Mesopotamia was reunited, but governed as two provinces: northern Mesopotamia (with Mosul) and southern Iraq (with Baghdad, the later caliphal capital).

Answer 3

Have you tried Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org)? I found this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia --check out the "More recent history" section) and it has hyperlinks to other Wikipedia articles, plus external links to outside sites. It includes references and a bibliography, so you will know where to look for more answers.

Answer 4

Countries, Facts & Figures.

http://countrystudies.us/

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/factbook/;_ylt=AjgPIHeVuFG24KzyHBaLfaBeCc0F

http://www.mistupid.com/geography/flags.htm

http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/Info/countries.htm

http://www.sitesatlas.com/

http://www.scalloway.org.uk/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html

History of Nations

This site has a history of every nation in the world as well as many non-sovereign territories. Each country is covered by a brief essay which gives the highlights of each nation's history.

http://www.historyofnations.net/

Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

Answer 5

Do a google search.