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.
Literally, the name Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers in Greek; meso is middle or between and potam is a root word for river, also seen in the word hippopotamus or river horse.. Mesopotamia was the ancient name for what is now Iraq, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. It has sometimes also been identified with the Fertile Crescent, although technically the Fertile Crescent took in parts of what are now several other countries in southwest Asia.