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 or the Fertile Crescent was a region in the Middle East between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the territory of modern Iraq, Iran and Syria. Ancient Sumeria was very small: it occupied only a narrow stretch of this territory, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers reach the Persian Gulf.