Mesopotamia

(noun.) the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq.

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

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