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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 2003
Page
4
Fragmentary text suggests ancient wheel use in pottery and early empire tales. Mentions Sumerians, Babylon, and a region now Turkey. Details are garbled and uncertain about dates and events.
Chronicles the succession of powers over Mesopotamia from 539 BC Persians to Arab Muslim conquests after Muhammad. Notes Greek Macedonian and Parthian rule, Abbasid rise near Baghdad, and Baghdad’s growth while Babylon declines.
The Arab empire waned and fell to Mongol conquest in 1258, Baghdad’s population dwindled to about 15,000 by the 1700s, and Ottoman neglect followed. The Ottoman realm declined as Great Britain's interests grew in the Persian Gulf and trade routes to India.
The narrative covers oil discovery in Persis now Iranish, Britain’s mandate over Iraq, the installation of King Faisal I, and continued British influence in military and oil resources. It notes independence moves culminating in 1932, political turmoil, World War II era alignments, and the 1958 military coup that toppled the monarchy and proclaimed Iraq a republic.
The revolutionary period under Abdul Karim Kassem in Iraq gave way to the Baath Party's rise after a bloodless 1968 coup led largely by Saddam Hussein. The regime pursued socialist reforms, oil nationalization in 1973, and faced Kurdish and Shiite unrest, while tensions with Iran culminated in war beginning in 1980 and UN inspections after the 1991 Gulf War.
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