Example sentences for: mesopotamia

How can you use “mesopotamia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By the mid-17th century the Ottoman Empire had reached its greatest extent, stretching from Batumi at the eastern end of the Black Sea to Algeria, taking in Mesopotamia, Palestine, the shores of the Red Sea (including Mecca and Medina), Egypt, Anatolia, Greece, the Balkans, Hungary, Moldavia, the North African coast, the Crimea, and southern Ukraine.

  • Originally from Russia or Asia, they migrated to Mesopotamia first and then on to Iran before entering India.

  • Stone Age settlers developed from hunters to farmers, growing barley and wheat crops that originated in Mesopotamia.

  • Around this time the Sumerian civilization living in Mesopotamia (the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq) founded and developed the cuneiform script, the world’s oldest form of writing on record.

  • The southeast Anatolia region is in upper Mesopotamia, covering Diyarbakir, SanliUrfa, GaziAntep, Adiyaman, Batman, Mardin, Siirt and Sirnak.


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