Hi. Can you give me a brief description of what Mesopotamia was?

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Thanks.

Answer 1

It's a funny word!! LOL!!

Answer 2

Yes but if i put it down here it will get me a violation notice...again

Answer 3

The birth place of such notable humanitarians as the Ayatollah Khomeini and Sadam Hussein!

Answer 4

Mesopotamia refers to the region now known as modern Iraq, and parts of eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and southwest Iran. The toponym comes from the Greek words μέσος "between" and ποταμός "river", referring to the basins of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers and the area in between. Comparably, the Arabic term is ما بين النهرين Ma Bayn Al Nahrain "between the two rivers". The geographical area watered by these two rivers is often referred to as the "Cradle of Civilization", since it was here that the first literate societies developed in the late 4th millennium BC, using a highly sophisticated writing system in the context of the emergence of the first cities and complex state bureaucracies.

The regional toponym Mesopotamia was coined in the Hellenistic period without any definite boundaries, to refer to a broad geographical area and probably used by the Seleucids. The area became a short-lived province of the Roman Empire at the time of Trajan, with the name Provincia Mesopotamia. Scholars have suggested that the Akkadian term biritum/birit narim corresponded to a similar geographical concept and coined at the time of the Aramaicization of the region.[1] It is however widely accepted that early Mesopotamian societies simply referred to the entire alluvium as kalam in Sumerian (lit. "land"). More recently terms like "Greater Mesopotamia" or "Syro-Mesopotamia" have been adopted to refer to wider geographies corresponding to the Near East or Middle East. The later euphemisms are Eurocentric terms attributed to the region in the midst of various 19th century Western encroachments.[2]

Answer 5

Mesopotamia is a location of early civilization on the planet earth going back 8,000 years.

It has been a testing ground for everyone ... Christian, Islam, Pax Romana and now Pax Americana.

Some day soon it will house a great anthropological museum of the  history of humans on the planet. I can't wait for the opening.

Answer 6

Mesopotamia is the area known as the "fertile crescent" that lies mainly between the Tigris and Euphrates River, predominately in Iraq.  

It is the first place that civilizations sprouted up when humans began farming.  I believe the name means "middle land" because it is between the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe.

Answer 7

The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq. It's considered the "Cradle of Civilization." This is where agriculture was first developed, and allowed people to settle in one location. The land was so fertile, that it would have been hard not to develop agriculture.