Mesopotamia, the land between two rivers.2 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 a

'Abd al-Karim Qasim, and, wounded, escaped to Syria and then Egypt. He attended Cairo

climate, where the winters are mild and cool, and the summers are hot, dry, and cloudless,

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

and services. In December 1999, the UN Security Council allowed Iraq to export under

capita output and living standards are still well below the prewar level, but any estimates

along the northern mountainous region they experience cold winters with occasional snow

that melts and causes extensive damage in central Iraq. Because of the climate agriculture

wide fluctuations. The government of Iraq is said to be a republic, but they are really a

Assryian, and Armenian. The total land area of Iraq is 422,162 sq. km., with a population

allowed to export limited amounts of oil in exchange for food, medicine, and other goods

industry back on its feet. For the first six six-month phases of the program, Iraq was

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

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