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 - Amazing Facts about the Cradle of Civilization. Mesopotamia is widely considered to be the longest and oldest human civilization, where the earliest cities in world history appeared about 3500 BC. It refers to the Tigris-Euphrates river system and corresponds to the modern day Iraq, Kuwait and some parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran. For West, the Bronze Age Mesopotamia is the real cradle of civilization which consisted of four empires, all native to the territory of modern day Iraq.