Most of the Ming Dynasty cultural sites are in Beijing and Nanjing. These two cities served as the capitals of the dynasty. Beijing was the capital for the final 262 years.
Geography of Ancient Mesopotamia âMesopotamiaâ is a Greek word meaning, âLand between the Riversâ. The region is a vast, dry plain through which two great rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris, flow.
Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two riversâ) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to todayâs Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.esopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two riversâ) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to todayâs Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.