World Wrestling Entertainment â 2015: 1  January 1, 2015 â Main Event: Adam Rose and The Rosebuds participated in a in ring segment with Edge and Christian. 2  January 2, 2015 â SmackDown: WWE tag team champions the Usos and R-Truth defeated Goldust, Stardust, and Adam Rose in a 6-man tag team match.
The rise of the first cities in southern Mesopotamia dates to the Chalcolithic (Uruk period), from c. 5300 BC; its regional independence ended with the Achaemenid conquest in 539 BC, although a few native neo-Assyrian kingdoms existed at different times, namely Adiabene, Osroene and Hatra.
Pre-historic era. Between 65,000 BC and 35,000 BC northern Iraq was home to a Neanderthal culture, archaeological remains of which have been discovered at Shanidar Cave This same region is also the location of a number of pre-Neolithic cemeteries, dating from approximately 11,000 BC.