The historical importance of Iraqi Kurdistan through ancient times

Abstract

Our research deals with the study of the historical reality of Iraqi Kurdistan and the civilizational importance that the region has witnessed since the stone ages where people began dwelling caves and caves, then housing in settlements and agricultural change in the Neolithic era as well as learning the arts of industry and trade, as Kurdistan was not isolated from the outside environment, so commercial relations were wide With the neighboring regions and contributed to the tributary of Mesopotamia to human immigrants, and in historical times the attention of the Mesopotamian kings was the focus of its strategic importance from the Akkadian era through the Kuti era until the Assyrian era, as it was a passage for the Assyrian armies Well on the next important commercial roads from the east.

The civilization interaction did not stop during all the historical stages. The city of Arbello and Zamu had the largest share in the royal blogs, which represented Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, respectively.

The research aims to highlight the role of Kurdistan in history, since it represented from the beginning of the history of Mesopotamia the civilized center that contributed with the rest of Mesopotamia regions to draw the bright history, and its residents contributed to putting their civilizational mark through the ages, we reached that the region inhabited since ancient times and the human being was active and continued Its effects throughout ancient times have not ceased