What The Ancients Did For Us - The Mesopotamians Part 5/6

Mesopotamia (from Greek Μεσοποταμία "[land] between the rivers", rendered in Arabic as بلاد الرافدين bilād al-rāfidayn)[1] is a toponym for the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq,[2] as well as some parts of northeastern Syria,[2] some parts of southeastern Turkey,[2] and some parts of the Khūzestān Province of southwestern Iran.[3][4]

Widely considered as the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires. The indiginous Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians & Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the dawn of written history circa 3100 BC to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC. It was then conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC and after his death it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire, by around 150 BC Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthians. Mesopotamia became a battle ground between the Romans and Parthians, with parts of Mesopotamia (particularly Assyria) coming under periodic Roman control. In 226 AD it fell to the Sassanid Persians, and remained under Persian rule until the 7th century AD Arab Islamic conquest of the Sassanid Empire. A number of primarily Christian native Mesopotamian states existed beween the 1st Century BC and 3rd Century AD; Adiabene, Oshroene and Hatra. The Assyrians

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[Treckorz]

@KingBiba97 I was hoping for you to say that. Now i will show you proof from genetic research papers from anthropologists and geneologist. Search Al-Zahery on google and click on "Y-chromosome and mtDNA polymorphisms in Iraq" download pdf and go read the report from an assyrian website! go google and search "The Genetics of Modern Assyrians and their Relationship to Other People of the Middle East" Howcanyouthink that anyone in the world has different genetics then their neighbours

[KingBiba97]

@Treckorz Assyrian DNA is different from any other culture.

[Treckorz]

@KingBiba97 Ok my friend. But you should never say such a statement as a group of people never belonging to mesopotamia. Its been over 100000 years. Our genes are very mixed. I read a lot of geneology, you have no Idea how every person in iraq no matter there so called "ethnicity" or "religion" Is SO shockingly near blood related to each other.

[KingBiba97]

@Treckorz I never said u said that. Im just sayin because many people think that.

[Treckorz]

@KingBiba97 Can you read english.. Did i even say that arabs are akkadian. Any way there is no proof if they was or not. And akkadians mixed not only with assyrians but babylonians and sumerians. And about arabs dont belong to assyria.. Yeh thats why the christian arabs from saudi arabia wen to iraq and became part of the assyrians. You have much more to learn. Please read my comment properly next time, peace brother x

[KingBiba97]

PROUND TO BE AN ASSYRIAN CHRISTAIN

[KingBiba97]

@Treckorz Arabs are not Akkadian. Assyrians are. Arabs dont belong to mesopatima.

[Treckorz]

@EruditeScythian Your very right, there are soo many akkadian words that are used in arabic, the most common is Shamsh which is shams, it means sun in arabic. There are hundereds more words!!

[EruditeScythian]

It would be fascinating to learn how much influence, if any, ancient Akkadian has had on the Arabic dialect spoken in present day Iraq.

[shagrath559]

they didn't have boats like yours mate.they got something called "mashoof" مشحوف . and the people in iraq are still using it these days. :)