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Indus And Mesopotamian Similarities
Many early civilizations were miles apart, but traders were still able to travel to other lands to trade and make contact with other civilizations that were very different. Mesopotamian and Indus civilizations were two of the many civilizations that would have travelled to each other's land to trade goods. However, because the Mesopotamian and Indus merchants were from different cultures, they would have viewed each other's civilizations very differently. For example, a Mesopotamian could have thought that the buildings of the Indus civilization were terribly built while an Indus merchant could have thought that Mesopotamian buildings were very well-built and artistic. This is because their people had completely different perspectives

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