Abstract

The wars fought by the ancient nations and peoples required their peoples to develop strategic ideas that would enable them to control the larger areas surrounding them. In view of the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia compared to the civilizations of the ancient world, it contributed in a pioneering and effective way to lay the foundations for the emergence of the oldest strategic ideas, The starting point of modern strategic ideas, and this is the goal of the research in revealing through the study: the efforts of the civilization of Mesopotamia in the emergence of modern strategic theories The importance of research is to achieve the originality and creativity that the ancient civilization of Iraq left in the geographical thinking through its efforts to develop the oldest strategic ideas that were not preceded by one of the civilizations that prevailed during antiquity. The problem of research is to search for historical and archaeological evidence confirming these past Civilization The rest of the world's civilizations and modern science in the development of the oldest strategic theories in political science. The most important conclusion of the study is that the Mesopotamian civilization laid the foundations and bases of the oldest strategic theories in political science, which were manifested in the theory of land power, the theory of naval power, air power theory, the theory of the world empire and the economic system, indicating that this nation has established its civilization Depending on the theory that enables it to dominate all parts of the world known at the time . .Keywords: geopolitics, strategy, world map of the Babylonians, theory , civilization of Mesopotamia