Episode #6 PLUS – Modern Mesopotamia’s Momma

When it comes to who was calling the shots in the creation of the country of Iraq, you might assume that the movers and shakers were men. Well, my friends, you know what they say about the dangers of assuming. The person who designed the boundaries based on the mandate for ancient Mesopotamia was not Britain’s Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, rather it was a woman named Gertrude Bell. She mapped out modern Mesopotamia…you know, the borders of biblical Iraq.