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    Egypt and mesopotamia are two of the world’s oldest civilizations in history. These two civilizations both relied heavily on their geography to help them create and maintain their rule. Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies existed on the banks of major rivers. Egypt is located in northern africa along the nile river. Mesopotamia‚ meaning in greek‚ between two rivers‚ resides on what was once known as the fertile crescent on the Tigris and the euphrates rivers located in the Middle east. These rivers

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    Andrew Schoonover  Mrs. Temple   AP World History  19 September‚ 2014  Egypt and Mesopotamia: Comparing and Contrasting (Final Draft)  Around 6‚000 years ago‚ the ingredients necessary for civilization began to form  independently from one another in several different places around the Earth. Two of the most  famous and foremost of the early civilizations were Egypt and Mesopotamia. Egypt and  Mesopotamia were fundamentally different in their religious beliefs and slightly different in their  formation of city states versus unified states

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    Egypt and Mesopotamia compare and contrast Through history there have been many different civilizations‚ a civilization develops‚ political‚ social‚ economical agriculture and religious aspects. Mesopotamia and Egypt are two different civilizations but still share some characteristics‚ because all humans have needs to solve‚ but each civilization adapts their own way of living. Where there is water there is life‚‚ that is the reason why Mesopotamia and Egypt were born next to a river. Mesopotamia

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    Compare & Contrast Essay Mesopotamia and Egypt By: Jessenia Carranza Egypt and Mesopotamia are similar because they share the same concept of having a single rule‚ although Egypt is a theocracy and Mesopotamia is a monarchy; and both are divided into social classes‚ the difference being that women in Egypt have more right than Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia and Egypt are both based upon a single ruler. The Akkedians‚ for example‚ had king Sargen‚ who formed the first empire; or even Hammurabi

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    developed around the Nile River‚ while Mesopotamia developed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Egypt and Mesopotamia grew into complex civilizations. Politically‚ both Egypt and Mesopotamia had a government with one main ruler‚ but Egypt had a centralized government with a pharaoh‚ while Mesopotamia had a decentralized government with a king. Socially‚ both civilizations were patriarchal‚ but Egypt was more lenient towards women while Mesopotamia was stricter. The political and social

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    Kyle Fuller Arakawa World Civilization 110-29 21 September 2006 Compare and Contrast: Mesopotamia and Egypt In the time of the agricultural age‚ two civilizations arose out of the plenteous food and raging waters. These two early civilizations were Mesopotamia and Egypt. Although many similarities can be drawn between the two‚ they each proved to be very different from each other in social‚ political‚ and religious systems as well as their stability and defeat. One factor they did have in

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    WHAP Comparative Essay While both Mesopotamia and China are arguably the most influential‚ prominent and successful civilizations of their time and region‚ China’s advanced government‚ agricultural success‚ sophisticated number system‚ complex irrigation and overall stability prompts it to be the greatest impact on today’s society. Mesopotamia‚ as well as China‚ developed languages- both written and spoken- that are still somewhat used today. These languages were used as framework for later

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    From 3500-1500 BCE‚ Mesopotamia and Egypt emerged as two of the first river- valley civilizations. Although they came to be around the same time‚ they became different in their cultural aspects‚ such as universal views and classes‚ and economies due to differences in commerce. Both Mesopotamia and Egypt have different universal views‚ which then affected their culture. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers of Mesopotamia have unpredictable flood patterns. This affected their view of the universe because

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    compare and contrast mesopotamia‚ egypt‚ and harappan civilization politically‚ socially‚ and economically. 8) Antony and Cleopatra – Octavia’s wife‚ Cleopatra‚ had an affair with Mark Antony. They fell in love after the Battle of Philippi. Antony conquered land in the East with Cleopatra’s money. They had three children together. In 33 BCE‚ the civil breaks out; and in 31 BCE‚ the Battle of Actium begins. Antony kills himself in 30 BCE‚ eleven days later‚ Cleopatra kills herself. 9) Pax Romana

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    Egypt And Mesopotamia Although the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations paved the way modern civilizations‚ they have more differences that are illustrated in the areas of military‚ agriculture & society‚ and government types. Egypt spent most of its history as a unified monarchy‚ whereas Mesopotamia seems to have begun as a collection of city-states (known as Sumeria) and continued to be dominated by a pair of mutually hostile powers: Assyria and Babylon. As a result‚ Mesopotamia’s history

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