ASHLEY

==

//__**Mesopotamia**__//
In the narrow sense, Mesopotamia is the area between the Euphrates and Tigris river s, north or northwest of the bottleneck at Baghdad, in modern Iraq; it is Al-Jazirah of the Arabs. South of this lies Babylonia, named after the city of Babylon. However, in the sense, the name Mesopotamia has come to be used for the area bounded on the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and on the southwest by the edge of the Arabian Plateau and stretching from the Persian Gulf in the southeast to the spurs of the Anti-Taurus Mountains in the northwest. The low-lying plain of the Karun River in the Persia has always been closely related to Mesopotamia, but it is not considered part of Mesopotamia as it forms its own river system.

Questions as to what ancient Mesopotamian civilization did and did not accomplished, how it influenced its neighbors and successors, and what its legacy has transmitted are posed from the standpoint of 20th-century civilization and are in part colored by ethical overtones, so that awnsers can only be relative. Modern scholars assume the ability to assess the sum total of an an "ancient Mesopotamian civilization"; but, since he publication of an article by the Assyriologist Benno Landsberger on "Die Eigenbergrifflichkeit der babylonischen Welt" it has almost become a commonplace to call attention to the necessity of viewing ancient Mesopotamia and its civilization as an independent entity.parker was here, so was austin. lol