Modern Day Mesopotamia Map

Mesopotamia was also known as the fertile crescent or the cradle of civilization because it is believed that the first civilizations began here at the end of the last ice age when the receding glaciers caused flooding from the zagros mountains to flow south and create the tigris and euphrates rivers that eventually flooded and. History of mesopotamia > cultures. Most scholars date the beginning of babylonia to the fall of the third dynasty of ur, around 2000 bc because many amorites apparently migrated from the desert into mesopotamia.

History of mesopotamia > cultures. This map reveals the areas in ancient mesopotamia. Mesopotamia, “the land between rivers,” (modern day iraq) is the birthplace of the earliest civilizations on the planet.

This map reveals the areas in ancient mesopotamia.

The tigris and the euphrates. The tigris and the euphrates. Ancient mesopotamia encompasses all of the country of iraq. The region corresponds to most parts of modern day iraq as well as parts of iran, kuwait, syria, and turkey.