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    Both the ancient Egyptians and Chinese made writing a major part of today’s society‚ although the Egyptians started using writing first. The Egyptians had great building skills with the pyramids and with the Sphinx; hence how well structured they are still today. Ancient Egypt was way before the time of the canals system and how they constructed giant statues of their gods. Meanwhile a couple thousand years later China was trying to get ahead of the game‚ with numbers and symbols representing what

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    the death and funerary customs of Ancient China and Ancient Egypt. Although the funeral beliefs of Ancient Chinese and Ancient Egyptian greatly resemble each other‚ the actual practices diverge significantly. These are mummification of the body‚ process of burial and the materials they used. Both civilizations believed in the afterlife and buried goods with the dead for the afterlife and protection. They also mummified the body to preserve them from rotting. Egypt believed when people passes‚ if they

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    Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia have many similarities‚ but also many differences. They had similarities in social values‚ religious views and economic surplus‚ and differences in social values‚ political values‚ writing‚ religious views and economic surplus; they had more differences than similarities. In ancient times‚ they did not have money; but in order for society to function‚ they would have had to have something to barter with. Both societies treasured land‚ livestock and droops. Both societies

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    There were four main ancient River Valley civilizations: the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia‚ the Nile River of Egypt‚ the Indus River of India‚ and the Yellow River of China. These civilizations showed specific similarities and contrasting differences. Many of these differences and similarities showed up in the three categories of the technological advances‚ the types of government‚ and the geography of the civilization. Two civilizations that are very interesting to delve deeper into and study

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    Ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica "We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with fragments that pop up to the surface‚ having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part." Alan Bloom expresses how all should feel when looking back to civilizations before. The Ancient Egyptians and Mesoamericans were two civilizations that continue to influence life today. These had both similarities and differences. Although Egypt

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    People of the ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia lived in two different locations and interacted with two different environments. Both places were affected by water in different ways. Euphrates and Tigress rivers shaped the development of Mesopotamia whereas‚ the Nile‚ shaped the development of Egypt. At the end‚ the people of these lands were able to use this water to their benefit. Mesopotamia is the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigress. In the time when the first people arrived at Mesopotamia

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    Ancient Egypt Essay Charlie Little A2 According to World Studies: The Ancient World page 256 the absolute location for the capital of Egypt‚ Cairo is 30 degrees N 32 degrees E. The Relative for Egypt is that it is north of Sudan‚ south of the Mediterranean Sea‚ west of the Red Sea‚ and east of Libya. According to World Studies: The Ancient World page 71 to 73 the climate of Egypt is hot but not to dry. The landforms of Ancient Egypt are the 6 Nile cataracts also known as rock filled rapids

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    civilization‚” and Ancient Egypt. These two civilizations flourished in their primitive times due to their political‚ social‚ and cultural advancements. Sharing many qualities of each other as people‚ these two societies were also exceedingly different‚ as are most cultures. Both Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt became known as some of the most powerful and influential civilizations known to man. The world’s first civilization was derived from Mesopotamia and inhabited by the Sumerians. Ancient Mesopotamia

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    Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian Cultures Around the time 4‚000-1‚000 BC there were two major western civilizations. Those civilizations were the Ancient Egyptians and the Mesopotamians. Many similarities exist between the civilizations of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia‚ as well as many differences. Both Egypt and Mesopotamia were polytheistic‚ that is‚ they believed their worlds were ruled by more than one god. Both cultures also believed that they themselves were created for the purpose of serving

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    I am doing my history paper on Egypt. The reason why I did my paper on ancient Egypt is because Egypt is a very interesting place to study and the culture is very appealing. Egypt is a social hierarchy so‚ that means that they have pharaoh not kings and queens . They have a chief minister and a supervised government . The other socials are merchants‚ artisans‚ soldiers and scribes . The social was listed from high society and low society so that means from peasants‚ slaves to pharaoh ‚ gods

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