WHERE IN THE WORLD IS—
Iraq
(This segment is periodically offered to assist readers in visualizing the global location of events in the news)
While patriotic Americans support our troops 100 per cent, many are growing weary of this war centered in an area of the globe that has been restless since Biblical times.
Modern Iraq corresponds to the area known as Mesopotamia of the Old Testament.
Settlement there was known as far back as 6,000 years BC by people who were to become known as Sumerians.
By the middle of the third millennium B.C., they had developed the wheeled chariot and discovered that tin and copper when smelted produced bronze--a new, more durable, and much harder metal. The chariot and bronze weapons became increasingly important as tools of battle--even then.
Today, the country, about twice the size of Idaho, has an estimated population of 26,700,000.
Iraq
(This segment is periodically offered to assist readers in visualizing the global location of events in the news)
While patriotic Americans support our troops 100 per cent, many are growing weary of this war centered in an area of the globe that has been restless since Biblical times.
Modern Iraq corresponds to the area known as Mesopotamia of the Old Testament.
Settlement there was known as far back as 6,000 years BC by people who were to become known as Sumerians.
By the middle of the third millennium B.C., they had developed the wheeled chariot and discovered that tin and copper when smelted produced bronze--a new, more durable, and much harder metal. The chariot and bronze weapons became increasingly important as tools of battle--even then.
Today, the country, about twice the size of Idaho, has an estimated population of 26,700,000.
In the graphic Iraq is centered between numerous bodies of water. Clockwise from directly left they are: The Mediterranean Sea, The Black Sea, The Caspian Sea, The Persian Gulf (draining toward the Indian Ocean lower right) and the Red Sea.
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