Talk:Ancient History/Ancient Near East/Mesopotamia

I am adding text to this module from an old history text: Myers, Philip van Ness. General History for Colleges and High Schools. Ginn & Co. New York. Copyright 1890 & 1906.

This work is public domain, and I have a text. There are no scans of it, so I can't just e-mail the original or copy and paste. I'm using Template:Myers1906 to mark this fact.

The text itself is full of dubious stuff. Racist, sexist, Eurocentric - it was a late edition Dead White Men version of history. I am modifying the text as I enter it to reflect modern tastes and writing styles. To wit "race" is replaced by "people" in most cases, or "nation". It's not a carbon-copy of the original. I'm typing it in by hand, so there will probably be faults.

The intent is to provide an initial text to stimulate more work, not to provide a perfect copy of this elderly text. It has not been fact checked and its contents probably do not fully reflect the modern view.

--Diderot 16:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

scope of topic
This page goes beyond Mesopotamia, so I'm creating an "Ancient Near East" module, with sub-modules including Mesopotamia.