Compare And Contrast Egyptians And Mesopotamians

The Egyptians and Mesopotamians both made enormous contributions to the development of technology and society. They had unique characteristics and made many advances for society and expansion alike. The Mesopotamians made advanced mathematical leaps and procured methods that we still use today. They were the ones that established a numerical place value system in which allows numbers to be categorized by observing the bordering digits that are placed alongside them. They also created a system that was derived by the sets sixty, ten, and six; the same system that our time keeping uses to keep track of minutes and seconds. The first states developed in Mesopotamia, which then led to the necessity of developing ways to control those states. This included Armies, taxation, and written
After about 4,000 B.C.E., cities began architecting large-scale projects like dams, dikes, and reservoirs. In order to be independent of other city-states, villages built market places, defensive walls, and public buildings that allowed for internal business transactions which kept citizens from having to travel to neighboring towns merely to conduct trade. The Mesopotamians had very strong religious ideals that steered their entire society. They were believers of Polytheism, a religion in which the world is controlled by a multitude of different gods and goddesses. The common belief was that the human’s purpose in life was to serve these gods, and if the gods were satisfied with their efforts, the human’s would be treated well in return. Mesopotamian society was ruled by kings that were responsible for many parts of the government. Priests and other religious figure-heads worked with the king, helping him stay informed about religious happenings. They also worked together to preserve power by using threats of higher taxation, physical force, and