The region includes most of modern day Iraq Kuwait and parts of northern Saudi Arabia, western Iran, eastern Syria and south-eastern Turkey. Mesopotamia broadly refers to the lands between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. It thus translates to “(land) in the middle of rivers”. The term Mesopotamia comes from ancient Greek root words “meso”, meaning “middle” and “potamos” meaning “river”. #1 It is named Mesopotamia due to its location between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris Here are 10 interesting facts about Mesopotamia including its history, cities, empires and kings.
Mesopotamia, as a civilization, is considered to have ended with the fall of Babylon to Cyrus the Great of Persia in 539 BC. Sumer, which was first permanently settled between 5500 BCE and 4000 BCE, is the earliest known civilization of Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia was home to many of the oldest major civilizations in the world including Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians. It saw the earliest major empires of the world led by famous leaders like Sargon of Akkad, Hammurabi and Tiglath-Pileser III. Mesopotamia was the place where the earliest historically important cities developed such as Uruk, Nineveh and Babylon. Though not certain, it is generally regarded as the place where human societies first emerged and thus it is often referred to as the “cradle of civilization”. Mesopotamia is a term used to refer to a historical region in western Asia within the Tigris–Euphrates river system.
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