- History of Iraq History Home Page CountryReports.org Shop our Online Store! Discuss World Issues! ~ Buy a History or Related Book ~ Historical Setting ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria Iranian and Greek Intrusions THE ARAB CONQUEST AND THE COMING OF ISLAM The Sunni-Shia Controversy The Abbasid Caliphate, 750-1258 The Mongol Invasion THE OTTOMAN PERIOD, 1534-1918 WORLD WAR I ...www.countryreports.org/history/iraqhist.htm