History of Iraq

This research is crucial to understanding the modern political and religious climate surrounding radical Islam. Islam is currently going through trials and tribulations and posed with the ultimate question of pluralism. Christianity seemed to to go through this crucible in the seventeenth century with the Enlightenment. While Christianity always had small-scale struggles regarding religious freedom post-Enlightenment with the majority Protestant persecution of Catholics, the question of…

The film is based on the Kurdish people and their long history fighting for a national identity which can be seen in their history. The Kurdish people are Sunni Muslim people, who have their own language and traditions, living on the mountainous borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Armenia. They are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East but they are still considered “nationless”. The traditional Kurdish life was nomadic until World War 1 and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.…

Nationalism in Iraq Iraq was established on October 1,1919. In World War I the British occupied a lot of Mesopotamia and were given a demand over the area in 1920. The British renamed the area Iraq and defined it as a kingdom in 1922. In 1932 the monarchy gained full independence. The Iraqi population includes Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Armenians. The religions are varied and consists of Shi'a and Sunni Muslims, Christians, Kurdish Yazidis, and a little number of Jews…

against the caliph were occurring in Iraq, especially in places such as, Kufa and Basra. After winning a battle or two, the rebellious Iraqis seemed to gain even more momentum. It was at this time that the caliph chose Hajjaj ibn Yusuf to become governor of Iraq and put an end to the revolts. History portrays that Hajjaj was a tyrannical, grim and evil man who ordered the execution of more than one hundred and twenty thousand people during his twenty year reign in Iraq. However, I will argue…

a very wealthy and educated state, tends to have very similar conservative and strict approach to woman’s rights just like Iraq, one of the poorest states in the Middle East. Both of Iraq and Saudi Arabia are similar when it comes to woman’s rights because woman in these countries are greatly oppressed and often victims of discrimination because on the fact that…

primal desires of the human conscious. Greed and apprehension are the driving factors behind today’s global instability. Economically, the US intervened in foreign land for the same reasons other global powers did throughout the course of human history. The target country has resources that the intervening country wants. Business interests and potential for profit were driving forces behind invasion. Moreover, the fear that communism would spread throughout the world justified covert operations…

Assyria was the area in the Near East which, reached from Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) through Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and down through Egypt. The empire began modestly at the city of Ashur (known as Subartu to the Sumerians), located in Mesopotamia north-east of Babylon. The Xia Dynasty 2070 B.C.E. – 1600 B.C.E. is the first dynasty to be described as independent in both the official Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial Bamboo Annals, which record the names of seventeen kings over…

The United States would have never defeated Hitler or Nazi Germany, if not for the wartime alliance with Stalin’s totalitarian Soviet Union. Throughout history the United States has always partnered with both friendly dictatorships and friendly democracies depending on their interests. But history has also shown that working with a government that has such differing ideological ideas, no matter how peaceful, is not productive. In the long term, it is best that the United States prefer hostile…

The effect of the Kurdish fight for autonomy in both Iraq and elsewhere, has changed the Middle East’s landscape. This includes subnational or internal fracturing of Kurdish parties, national barriers, and newfound international relations as well as political alliances with historical rivals. Gareth Stansfield illustrates this point when he uses Kurdish history in Iraq as and cites economic and political relations with Turkey as signaling a potential Kurdish state, “By embracing this agenda,…

It is one of the most complicated, dangerous and puzzling armed groups of the contemporary history. The group has killed thousands of people, destroyed cities and controls territories in several countries and spread fear around the world. Fighting this group costs the global community billions of dollars and thousands of lives, but after more…