History of Iraq - History of Iraqi insurgency, History of Mesopotamia, Sumer, Akkadian Empire, Babylonia, Mitanni, Assyria, Chaldea, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Nebuchadnezzar II, Persian Empire, Islamic conquest of Persia, Caliphate, Islamic Golden Age, Ottoman Empire, Mamluk rule in Iraq, British Mandate of Mesopotamia, Iraqi revolt against the British, 2003 invasion of Iraq, Post-invasion Iraq, 2003 present, Iraqi Kurdistan