This left Abdullah, who had had his eye on Mesopotamia, looking for a throne.
The British took over Palestine and three Ottoman provinces of Mesopotamia and created modern-day Iraq.
In ancient Mesopotamia the rough Semites attacked and eventually overcame the wealthier, more sophisticated Sumerians.
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One of the hubs of Mesopotamia, Ur was founded in the fourth millennium B.
The combination of international sanctions and government neglect has brought ruin to Mesopotamia's famously fertile fields.
Weiss says he has found evidence that the drought drove farmers in ancient Mesopotamia to build irrigation channels.
The battalion fought the Turks in Mesopotamia until the end of the war.
The precise modern calendar we take for granted has roots in ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Arabia and Rome.
According to Melville, teachers can continue to learn a thing or two about the way math was taught in Mesopotamia.
But in the second half, the Lions of Mesopotamia started to roar and Emad Mohammed hit the post with Mark Schwarzer beaten.
As second best, the British packed him off to Mesopotamia in 1921.
For non-mathematicians, these tablets are a fascinating document of life in Mesopotamia.
Many surmise cuneiform writing originated in ancient Mesopotamia to record business transactions.
This was recognized at the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
"Saddam Hussein has certainly figured himself to be a sort of emperor of Mesopotamia and the leader of the Arab world, " Blix said.
He writes on Islamic finance in law review articles and on his blog, Muslimlawprof.org, and is the author of Howling in Mesopotamia.
The trade routes of the Milesians also took them to Mesopotamia, where they probably acquired the knowledge of astronomy they needed for celestial navigation and timekeeping.
Mesopotamia created urban culture: Ur, Babylon, Nineveh and countless lesser-known sites are where humans first worked out ways to live together in close quarters in large numbers.
The Assyrian Church - the Ancient Church of the East, also sometimes referred to as the Nestorian Church - traces its roots back to 2nd Century Mesopotamia and is not Catholic.
In 656, Caliph Uthman, the third caliph to rule after the death of the Prophet, was assassinated at his home in Medina (now Saudi Arabia) by besieging Muslim rebels from Mesopotamia.
Though it seems to have evolved in ancient Mesopotamia, beer found its true home in northern Europe, where wine grapes did not grow naturally and people were forced into the more complicated process of brewing.
Man battled the elements in Mesopotamia, and the desert and its ways of plunder and raiding pushed against urban life, but the land gave rise to powerful kingdoms: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Abbasids.
Her prolific letters, diaries, and intelligence position papers, no less than her eight books and her magnum opus, Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia, make Gertrude Bell one of the best-documented women of all time.
But in the meantime, the Lions of Mesopotamia will be taking the field Sunday against Australia for a game that will help determine whether Iraq gets to play in the biggest event in soccer, the World Cup.
The first of these, known as the Younger Dryas, after a tundra-loving plant that thrived during it, occurred at the same time as the beginning of agriculture in northern Mesopotamia, in land now controlled by Turkey, Iraq and Syria.
Dilmun, one of most important ancient civilisations of the region and said to date to the third millennium BC, was a hub on a major trading route between Mesopotamia - the world's oldest civilisation - and the Indus Valley in South Asia.
Certainly not Mesopotamia or Egypt.
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