- The EFA 2000 Assessment: Country Reports Iraq Next Page Part I: Descriptive Section Introduction. From ancient times Iraq was know as Mesopotamia, and was the cradle of the first civilization know to man; wherein arose the sumerian, Accadian, Assyrian and Babylonian civilizations. Iraq had a great significance since the dawn of Islam in its regions the Arabic Islamic civilization flourishes ...www2.unesco.org/wef/countryreports/iraq/rapport_1.html