Sentence examples for mesopotamia from inspiring English sources

FERNAND BRAUDEL, a renowned French historian, once described a remarkable transformation in the society of ancient Mesopotamia.

For a speculator, it can be a lucrative way of betting on whether prices will go up or down.The very first agricultural derivatives can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia.

The historian Gerda Lerner elaborates this idea by explaining that "the most widespread and accepted explanation of the origin of prostitution" is that it began with temple prostitution in places such as ancient Mesopotamia (Lerner 1986, 125).

Parts of both cities have become a no-go zone for Iraq's beleaguered troops, who have been battered and humiliated by Isis, a group of marauders unparalleled in Mesopotamia since the time of the Mongols.

"It has been a hundred years since we were divided between the four devils," he says, referring to the regional carve-up of Kurdish lands after the first world war between the rump of Ottoman Turkey, Iran, Syria (then run by France) and Mesopotamia (run by Britain, and soon to become Iraq).

It was one of the largest urban sites in northern Mesopotamia and is believed to have been settled as early as 6,000 BC.

But for a growing number of Americans the superpower's inability to impose its will on Mesopotamia is symptomatic of a deeper malaise.Nearly six years after September 11th, nervousness about the state of America's "hard power" is growing (see article).

According to Mr Braudel, women in ancient Mesopotamia had previously been in charge of the fields and gardens where cereals were grown.

He makes the case that the "hubris of dominance" that dumped American soldiers into Mesopotamia is one of three flavours of hubris to have led American policy astray over the century.

The world was like a plate; paradise was up a mountain, across a sea, perhaps guarded by angels, maybe in China, or Armenia, or Abyssinia, or Mesopotamia.

When the troops go home, democracy will strike no lasting roots in the dust of Mesopotamia.