Mesopotamia

Examples

• The centre of gravity of Islam shifted across the desert from Damascus to Mesopotamia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The broad outline of the history of Egypt is simpler than the history of Mesopotamia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Trajan also invaded Parthia and annexed Armenia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thence they came by way of Mesopotamia to Ormuz on the Persian Gulf, as if they contemplated a sea voyage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Armenia was overrun, all Mesopotamia was conquered and Persia beyond the rivers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To the east, in Mesopotamia, the British, using Indian troops chiefly, made a still remoter flank attack upon the Central Powers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Men in Egypt and Mesopotamia also developed a primitive type of basket-work boat, caulked with bitumen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At last there happened to Egypt what happened so frequently to the civilizations of Mesopotamia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Never at any time did the Romans succeed in pushing their empire beyond Mesopotamia, and upon Mesopotamia their hold was never very secure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mesopotamia became a land of ruins and desolation, through which great waters ran to waste, or overflowed their banks to make malarious swamps. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But it was only under Hulagu in Mesopotamia that these ideas seem to have been embodied in a deliberate policy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For a long time civilization may quite possibly have developed in Mesopotamia without any relations with the parallel beginnings in Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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