Iraq

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🇮🇶 Cool Ancient Wonders of Iraq!

🗣️ Hello: Salaam / Halla

🏺 Old Name: Mesopotamia – The Land Between Waters

🕌 Newer Name: Babylon

📜 Language: Arabic

📖 Where History Began!
Iraq is the land of the Bible’s flood story, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon 🌿, and even the Garden of Eden! 🌼

🧱 Before Egypt: The world’s first civilizations began here! Agriculture, cities, and writing started in Mesopotamia.

🦁 Gilgamesh the Lion Tamer wrote his story on clay tablets, not paper! King Ashurbanipal had over 30,000 clay books. 📚

⏰ Did You Know?
Iraq gave us the 7-day week, 60-minute hour, 360° circle, and even triangle math! 🎉

🙏 Thank You, Iraq! We use your ancient knowledge every day!

ALIBABA hid behind a rock until the thieves of Baghdad galloped away. 🐎

Then he crept up to the cave and said the magic words he had overheard:

"OPEN SESAME!"

The cave opened... but inside was no treasure—just monsters! 👹👺

There was a two-headed beast, a giant yellow bird 🐤, a hairy elephant 🐘, and a big blue monster shouting, "Give me cookies!" 🍪

Ali Baba had been tricked!

He ran, and the monsters chased him, singing:

"Can you tell me how to get... how to get to Sesame Street?" 🎶

This tale was adapted from one of Scheherazade’s magical stories in 1001 Nights.