Many people say that Iraq is a small country and is not to be feared by the United States.
But in fact, relatives should not underestimate Iraq, which is also a proper world hegemon in history.
Speaking of the history of Iraq, we have to go back to mesopotamia 10,000 years ago. Perhaps those who know the history of the Middle East know that Mesopotamia was one of the earliest regions where the Neolithic Revolution developed.
As early as the Bronze Age, the Sumerian civilization appeared in Mesopotamia.
At that time, an empire called Akkad appeared in this area.
How good is this empire?
According to research, this was the first empire in human history, and its rule covered the entire mesopotamia region, which is now The region of Iraq.
Since it was the first empire in human history, it must have predated the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, so that relatives can understand how good this empire is.
During the Sumerian civilization, the Sumerians invented the written word, which coincided with the ancient Egyptians inventing the written word.
Writing is a good thing, and the key point is that the emergence of words records the history of mankind and tells us how people thousands of years ago have continued human civilization to this day.
There is nothing to say about the history of the late Bronze Age, because it is the story of various tribes fighting for territory.
The time point is 2006 BC, when the Amorites invaded the Two Rivers Valley and directly destroyed the Third Dynasty of your founded by the Sumerians. The Amorites then established a dynasty with the city of Babylon as its capital.
When you see this, you should know that history has ushered in a chapter of the Babylonian dynasty.
Babylon is known as the most glorious dynasty in the region, and from the Babylonian dynasty onwards, the region achieved a high degree of centralized despotism. The famous Code of Hammurabi was promulgated by the famous Babylonian monarch Hammurabi.
This monarch is also known as the greatest monarch of the Babylonian Dynasty, and in the eyes of the people of Mesopotamia in later generations, this Hammurabi the Great is equivalent to Qin Shi Huang in our eyes.
But the Babylonian dynasty was annexed by the Assyrian Empire in 729 BC, after which the region was ruled by the Assyrian Empire, and the timeline also came to the Iron Age.
Of course, in less than a hundred years, the Assyrian Empire fell into civil war and had no time to contain this region, so the Chaldeans created the neo-Babylonian kingdom, but unfortunately they were still unable to restore the glory of ancient Babylon, but the century fell apart again.
When the timeline came to the beginning of the 2nd century AD, the Persian Empire ushered in its heyday, and the mesopotamia region was conquered by the Persian Empire, so that the people of this region became the people of the Persian Empire.
The Persian Empire was very powerful, and if the whole world was divided into four parts, then the Persian Empire occupied a quarter of the world, and in this quarter of the world, the Persian Empire undoubtedly stood at the top of the food chain.
But in the 2nd century AD, everyone knows that there are two major hegemons in the world, one is the ancient Roman Empire in the Europa region, and the other is the Great Qin Empire in Asia Minor.
The Great Qin Empire was too far away from this naturally had no idea, but the Roman Empire was different, constantly encroaching on the border areas of the Persian Empire.
During the reign of the Persian Second Empire, the Roman Empire was constantly in friction, and the two sides won and lost, but the Roman Empire vaguely suppressed the Sabbath Empire.
But the Roman Empire is very unfortunate that due to internal reasons, it directly led to the later huge empire being divided into two, and its strength was reduced.
The Persian Empire also entered the Sassanid period in the 3rd century AD, forming the Chu River Han Dynasty with the Eastern Roman Empire.
The Sassanid Empire ruled for a very long time, from the 3rd century AD to the middle of the 7th century AD, until the arrival of the Arabs, which destroyed the Sassanid Empire's rule in this region in one fell swoop.
The capital of the Sassanid Empire was in Ctesiphon, and Baghdad, the northern suburb of Tessiphon, is now the capital of Iraq.
Baghdad then became the center of the Arab Empire, which means that today's Iraq was at that time the best geographically located region in the entire Arab world.
There are many advantages to being the center of a region, such as the explosion of high prosperity in the whole region, and the living standards of the people in the region are higher than in other regions.
The Arabs ruled the region for a long time, and it was not until 1258 AD that the dominance of the Arabs was ended by the Mongol army's western conquest of the Arabs.
Thereafter, from the 14th to the 15th century, the region was ruled by the Black Sheep Dynasty and the White Sheep Dynasty, which were established by the Turkmen people living in northern Iraq.
However, after entering the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire conquered the entire region of Iraq, thus ushering in the first merger of the Two Rivers Valley and the Iranian plateau.
The Ottoman Empire was also a very powerful empire in history, and it was said that the only thing that could make the whole europa embrace together was the Ottoman Empire, except for the Mongol army.
In order to resist the Ottomans, the Europa region once gave up its hatred for each other and embraced each other, which prevented the Ottoman military expansion into Europa.
So when was the Ottoman Empire completely broken up?
Naturally, it was the period of the First World War! On the eve of the First World War, the Ottomans were actually crumbling for internal reasons, and the Ottomans intervened in the First World War in order to regain the concentration of national military power and revive the Ottoman Empire by becoming a victorious power, but the result was to choose the wrong teammates, directly reduced to a defeated country, and like the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it was directly dismembered.
It was also during World War I that the area of present-day Iraq was forcibly occupied by the British and colonized it. Of course, this was reluctant for the Iraqis, who had wanted to recreate Mesopotamian civilization since they had broken away from the Ottoman Empire.
It was not until 1932 that Iraq finally broke away from Britain and re-established a monarchy ruled by the Hashemite dynasty.
Many countries in Europa at that time wanted to intervene militarily, but after the outbreak of World War II, many countries in Europa were exhausted. Thus giving Iraq ample period of development.
But in 1958, The Revival Society overthrew the hashemite dynasty, a situation that led directly to the blockade of Western domination in Iraq. Later, in 1979 Iraq welcomed the dictator Saddam Hussein.
Shortly after Saddam Hussein came to power, the Iran-Iraq War broke out, which lasted for 8 years, and then in 1990, the Kuwaiti War broke out, which directly led to the outbreak of the Gulf War.
Of course, Iraq's military strength is still very strong, but due to the rapid defeat of the ground forces in the early stages, the internal disintegration led to the submission of Iraq as a whole, and Saddam Hussein eventually came to an end.
In addition to the dispute with Iraq, the US military has recently done a stupid thing, that is, assassinated the famous Iranian general Sulaimani.
This famous general Sulaimani is the third big man in Iran, a strongman who can dominate the situation in the Middle East, a fuehrer-level figure was assassinated by the US military, Iran will not easily yield and compromise, then how cold will Iran retaliate? Perhaps soon we will see that the United States is good at playing with fire, but it must also understand a sentence, playing with fire is easy to burn down their own houses.