Mesopotamia, the land between two rivers. Mesopotamia was set between the Euphrates

and Tigris Rivers. This area is known as the Cradle of Civilization, because around 4000

B.C. the Sumerian culture thrived. The first written language was developed during the

Sumerian culture. After the fall of the Sumerian culture, many different empires invaded

and “ruled” Mesopotamia. Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, modern day Iraq is a

country of many diverse ethnicities, religions, and beliefs.

Seventy-nine percent of all Iraqi people are Arabic, sixteen percent are Kurdish,

three percent are Persian, and two percent are Turkish. The majority of the Iraqi people

practice the Muslim religion, while only three percent practice Christianity or another

religion. These ethnicities and religions make up a nation of more than 22,000,000

The people of Iraq have a life expectancy of 66.53 years, where the male lives

65.54 years and the female lives 67.56 years. Iraq is ranked 119th in life expectancy.

They are ranked 126th in infant mortality rates with a rate of 62.49 deaths for every 1,000

live births. Iraq has a literacy rate of

The one man who controls Iraq is Saddam Hussein. Hussein was born into a

hundred billion dollars. The oil exports gradually increased at the end of the war in 1988.

Agriculture in Iraq consists of wheat, barley, rice, figs and other fruits such as

Ba'thists took power in Iraq in 1963. When the Ba'thists were overthrown that same year,

minister, among other positions. He used an extensive secret-police establishment to

suppress any internal opposition to his rule, and he made himself the object of an extensive

1932. Iraq is a land of beauty and turmoil. The country of Iraq maintains an extremely

Hassan al-Bakr, and in 1972 he directed the nationalization of Iraq's oil industry. Hussein

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Security Council, Ottoman Empire, Assryian Armenian, Iran Iraq, Agriculture Iraq, College Ba'thists, Command Council, United Nations, GDP Service, Ahmad Hassan, iraqi dinar, iraqi people, sumerian culture, united dollar, formerly ottoman empire, thirteen percent, ottoman empire, oil exports, formerly ottoman, hundred dollars, purchasing power parity, prime minister,