Iran–Iraq War

Iraq is a country that has seen both beauty and turmoil over its extensive time period. Mesopotamia is referred as the ‘cradle of civilization’ because of the growth of the city and the interest in writing. Mesopotamia was located in today’s Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. This time of development, while it left a lasting impression on the world, was only short lived. The twentieth century was the beginning of the end of Iraq’s movement towards full development. Two years after World War I, Iraq…

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 Mountain Turks? The conflict between the Kurds and the Government of Turkey is lasted for almost three decades. This war has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people, and most of them are Kurds. After Ottoman Turkish Empire collapsed by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, he gave his word to the Kurds that he will granting them self-rule in their region, if they supports him in establishment of what we know today as the Republic of Turkey. The new Turkish government did not keep its promises to…

The documentary felt pretty biased in a particular direction that makes it feel closed off to the people for whom its point of view would be most helpful. It felt like another of the many news sources that yell into echo chambers filled with people already inclined to lean towards the point of view presented. It was also a lot of information presented very quickly and with very little contextualization. For instance the portion where it was talking about the Energy Task Force, a sector in the…

Sumer people had the character of the sculpture, pottery, cylinder seals, and their correlation in different sites. The earliest form of religion are represented on cylinder seals and walls of a symbol representing the god Ihnana, goddess of love and war, and a man in a boat. The man in a boat could represent procession of gods or of a cultic journey by ship. In ancient Sumer, fishermen and marsh dwellers, date palm cultivators, cowherds, shepherds, and farmers all had their special groups of…

international commentators” (Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir 2016). This violence ripped Darfur apart and left ruins in its wake. The International Criminal Court (ICC) called for an arrest warrant for Bashir, citing him for “crimes committed against humanity, war crimes, and genocide in Darfur” (Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir 2016). This charge was monumental since it was the first time the ICC had pressed charges against a current head of state. This charge has been reissued but not fulfilled. The…

Lauren Gebhardt Professor Paga Urbanism in the Ancient World 22 February, 2016 Religion in the Ancient Egyptian City of Thebes Religion and ritual practices played a big role in the process of urbanization in ancient times. A major source of evidence of urbanization in Ancient Egypt is the city known as Thebes. To Ancient Egyptians, the city was known as Waset or Niwt, meaning “The City,” but the Greeks changed the name to Thebes because it was “the model for every city” (Snape 150). In Thebes…

How was Mesopotamia able to use all of its cultures to create one civilization? Mesopotamia was located between rivers Tigris and Euphrates as the name states. It was more precisely located in modern-day Iraq. This civilization is also credited for the invention of the wheel and sophisticated weaponry and warfare. Despite all of these characteristics a few stick out. Mesopotamia is a civilization with a variety of cultures and unique religion, sacred writings, and distinct system of laws. The…

Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization” because it was the birthplace of many diverse civilizations that arose later on. I agree that civilization originated there because the rise of complex urban centers became a foundation for political and economic stability. The abundance of food grown in the fertile crescent made it possible for large numbers of people to live together. Because of the population growth and a stable food source, more people began to specialize and trade their…

In Iraq the group of Indigenous people are known as the Mandaean community. They are an ethnoreligious, linguistic minority, and an indigenous people from Iran and Iraq. The Mandaean Human Rights Group, also known as the MHRG, speaks out for the Mandaean community. They have roughly 60,000 people with their own two thousand year old language a form of Aramaic. The Mandaean community consists of smaller more individual groups. 75% to 80% are Arab, 15% - 20% are Kurds, and an estimated 5% are…