Did Arabs build the ancient Mesopotamia civilization?

Throughout Mesopotamian history different waves of invasion from all directions have brought lots of outsiders into the region; those groups definitely included people from the Arabian peninsula; but the core of Mesopotamian civilization was built in the region by speakers of other languages. read more

Ancient Mesopotamia is usually defined as the period before Muslim Arabs conquered the area. Mesopotamia is just next to the Arabian Peninsula, and for centuries before Islam the Arabs were already migrating into the area, especially in the south. By the time of Seleucid Empire in 3rd century BCE, there was already a substantial Arab population in southern Mesopotamia. read more

Ancient Mesopotamia had many languages and cultures; its history is broken up into many periods and eras; it had no real geographic unity, and above all no permanent capital city, so that by its very variety it stands out from other civilizations with greater uniformity, particularly that of Egypt. read more

By roughly 6000 to 8000 years ago, agriculture was well under way in several regions including Ancient Egypt, around the Nile River; the Indus Valley civilization; Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; and Ancient China, along the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. read more