History of Iraq

In the article “Cuneiform and the History of Civilization” Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, a world renowned Assyriologist argues that the survival span, influence, and legacy of Mesopotamia, a historic civilization is unmatched. After extensive research, Speiser came to the conclusion that Mesopotamian Laws were the most influential of the Cuneiform laws. It’s legal traditions set the precedent for other civilizations and heavily impacted later cultures. Our world as we know it today is culturally…

BCE. Throughout time, civilization grew with laws, crops, and people. Mesopotamia helped create writing and taxes. The name, Mesopotamia, is used for the area that is watered by the Euphrates and Tigris and its tributaries, roughly made up of modern Iraq and part of Syria. In the south of modern Bagdad, this plain was called the land of Sumer and Akkad. Sumer is the southern part, and the land of Akkad is…

The book I decided to read was As Strong as Mountains: a Kurdish Cultural Journey, written by Robert L. Brenneman. I wanted to read this book because I did not know any aspects of the Kurdish culture. I enjoy learning about other cultures, and Kurdish is one culture that I had very little knowledge of. In fact, I am not very educated about the cultures within the Middle East in general. This book helped me understand new aspects of the Kurdish culture and their lifestyle. Author Brenneman…

Immediate solution has to be taken wisely with the help of history and previous society 's failures. Some manifestation of climate change that we have seen on television is a strong hurricanes and severe heat waves, this is a life threatening situation that no being would like to experience. However, as the earth…

Kurdish people have of an uprising, this is based on centuries of oppression and the wish to prevent political or state Kurdish independence. Kurdish people are ethnic minorities in a vast amount of countries but are populous in Iran, Syria, Turkey and Iraq. So, whilst Turkey is allied with Kurdish people, in the plight against the government and IS, it is also bombing…

“3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!” everyone around time square yelled. Although it’s 2001, our story takes place a decade before. In Seattle, Washington on January 1, 1991,the stadium was extremely loud. The Washington Huskies had a comfortable lead in the first half. As the soon to be winners were in the locker room when their coach Don James came in with a grin from ear to ear. Nobody knew how he was going to speak. “ Alright boys, were having Hawkeyes for dinner. Lets just keep tearing into them,…

from 1979 -1989 until the ayatollah’s death. This tumultuous period included killing off supporters of the previous regime, taking foreign hostages and fostering its zealotry across the Islamic world. This phase also saw an eight year conflict with Iraq that proved to be the Middle East’s bloodiest modern conflict. The second phase from 1989 – 1997 was a subtle transition from a hardcore theocratic set-up to conservative realism. The third phase between 1997-2005 coincided with the era of…

related and financial assets were secured by the Britain's. in the twentieth century, it proceeded when the patriot pioneer, Mohammad Mossaddeq was ousted by the Britain and the United States. After the Iranian upset in 1979, when America bolstered Iraq in the eight year war, the doubt of the West was…

believe that compromise and cooperation will serve US interests. Some see a hostile enemy made up of radical conservative Islamist nationalists, others see Iran as a country on the verge of a shift towards democracy. Though some argue that Iran’s history of supporting terrorist…

They used the largest canons of the time that could destroy walls, this aided their conquering of Constantinople. The Safavids learned of gunpowder technology from fighting the Ottomans, and used the knowledge to conquer the lands currently known as Iraq and Iran (The Gunpowder Empires: Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, n.d). The Mughals used firepower to control lands of modern day India, Pakistan,…