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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX MESOPOTAMIA HISTORICAL BACKGROUND As Egypt is the gift of the Nile, so Mesopotamia is the creation of the Tigris and the Euphrates. The great twin rivers, bursting out of the snow-clad Armenian highlands to the north, have deposited their abundant silt in the course of their southward flow, and during unnumbered ages have transformed what was originally a long arm of the sea into a vast alluvial plain stretching from the Armenian highlands to the Persian Gulf and filling in the whole wide depression between the Persian mountains on the east and the sterile Arabian plateau on the west. The Persian Gulf, into which the Tigris and the Euphrates finally discharge themselves, is merely the diminished remnant of the ancient sea which once stretched to the very foot-hills of the Armenian mountains. The Mesopotamian plain, being one vast alluvial deposit, holds possibilities of marvelous fertility. A rational distribution of the river waters can easily make its rich soil bear diverse crops of incredible yield. Accordingly, whenever a strong and intelligent government has controlled it, Mesopotamia has become one of the garden-spots of the world, studded with magnificent cities and supporting a dense population. Such it was in the ancient days of Nineveh and Babylon; such again in the early Middle Ages under Haroun-alRaschid, the mighty Calif of Bagdad. Its present miserable condition dates from the terrible Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century, which desolated the whole country and slew its industrious population. Since classes with the power and superiority of European methods, and when during the troubled years which followed the French evacuation the able Albanian adventurer Mchemet Ali made himself master of the country, he strenuously endea...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150955921
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150955929
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 172 gr


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