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Authors, sign in!Iraq is a new nation in the old country that was called Mesopotamia. Iraq was formed from three provinces of the Turkish Empire (Mosul, Baghdad, and Basrah), at the end of World War I. This land was the home of the world's oldest known civilization. The early Mesopotamia lived in villages, used pottery and bronze tools, and grew food crops at a time when Europeans were still savage hunters, wandering through the forests in search of wild game and berries and roots. The early Mesopotamia invented important tools such as the wheel and the building arch. They were the first to divide the day into twenty-four hours. They used elaborate irrigation systems to water their fields.
The region which became Iraq was far more prosperous in ancient times than it is today. But Iraq still has valuable resources. It is an important source of oil.
Iraq's oil makes the country important to Great Britain, the United States, and Russia. The chief wealth of Iraq is its oil. The chief oil fields are at Kirkuk. In 1952, the world's largest oil pipeline was opened here. Built of 30 and 32-inch pipe, it runs 556 miles, from Kirkuk to Baniyas, Syria, on the Mediterranean Coast.
The discovery of oil in the 1920s was of great importance to Iraq. A foreign company controlled by Great Britain leased the oil rights. Pipe lines were built to carry the oil down to the sea. A railroad which had been planned before World War I was completed in 1940 because it was needed for transporting oil.
Iraq's second and most important resource is its fine and dusty soil.
(Please note: The sole purpose of this posting is to test the systems at EverydayCitizen.com, while it is under construction, and the text here was copied verbatim from The World Book Encyclopedia, 1956 edition. This is not an original composition from this author, only a test.)
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