<span>Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') 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 today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.</span>
Medieval attitudes toward Christianity, for lack of better terms, was quite prude. They followed everything in the good book (Bible) to a tee and did not stray from it at all. Their whole lives revolved around the church. When the idea of humanism came around in the Renaissance, it changed everything, because painters, scholars, etc. looked back to antiquity, and recovered the ancient's way of art, etc. This theory focused more on humans in the here and now and living life to the fullest, and they were not necessarily completely concerned about living their lives for God so there is a place for them in heaven when they die.
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The main rationale for the invasion of Iraq was based on allegations by the American and British governments that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction and that he thus presented a threat to his neighbors and to the world