Ancient Empires
Two civilizations started out at the same time and evolved into empires of great similarities, yet compelling differences lie between them.
The two countries represent societies beginnings with their impressive work and there astonishing achievements with such little technology at their disposal, nevertheless brilliant minds found ways to design massive buildings and a new form of language at their time.
Mesopotamia and Egypt show there similarities in the aspects of economic, political, and social elements with amazing similarities at a broad level until you look at specific comparison.
Mesopotamia meaning land between the rivers is located in between the Tigris and Euphrates and is a vary arid zone surrounded by mountains and thanks to the irrigation canal they built it became a very impressive region for trade, on the other hand Egypt was a natural isolation privileged with the presence of the river Nile and its annual floodsthat was an oasis, green, and habitable piece of land in the midst of the dessert.
Mesopotamia’s economics and Egypt’s economics were both similar at aspects per say but each was an opposite version of another.Egypt had good crops at certain point of the year but also relied on trade when it came to their massive amounts of gold for metalworking, and refining, precious ores, and endowed with natural resources far more plentiful than Mesopotamia so they were able to triad for animals, wood, incense, etc... Mesopotamia had crops that were very fertile considering they were in the Fertile Crescent;There civilization relied on trading food and other supplies for raw materials and luxury items as an economic way of life because of there easily accessible country through there two rivers.Mesopotamia had switched from stone writing to writing on papyrus paper where they would put down what they had traded, and for how much like receipts, Mesopotamian's would use numbers one through sixty as amounts that were represented by symbols in
The two countries represent societies beginnings with their impressive work and there astonishing achievements with such little technology at their disposal, nevertheless brilliant minds found ways to design massive buildings and a new form of language at their time.
Mesopotamia and Egypt show there similarities in the aspects of economic, political, and social elements with amazing similarities at a broad level until you look at specific comparison.
Mesopotamia meaning land between the rivers is located in between the Tigris and Euphrates and is a vary arid zone surrounded by mountains and thanks to the irrigation canal they built it became a very impressive region for trade, on the other hand Egypt was a natural isolation privileged with the presence of the river Nile and its annual floodsthat was an oasis, green, and habitable piece of land in the midst of the dessert.
Mesopotamia’s economics and Egypt’s economics were both similar at aspects per say but each was an opposite version of another.Egypt had good crops at certain point of the year but also relied on trade when it came to their massive amounts of gold for metalworking, and refining, precious ores, and endowed with natural resources far more plentiful than Mesopotamia so they were able to triad for animals, wood, incense, etc... Mesopotamia had crops that were very fertile considering they were in the Fertile Crescent;There civilization relied on trading food and other supplies for raw materials and luxury items as an economic way of life because of there easily accessible country through there two rivers.Mesopotamia had switched from stone writing to writing on papyrus paper where they would put down what they had traded, and for how much like receipts, Mesopotamian's would use numbers one through sixty as amounts that were represented by symbols in