How Is Mesopotamia Similar

Egypt and Mesopotamia are two of the earliest civilizations in history. They each had good and bad things about them. They each were special civilizations in their own way. They had many similarities but also had differences. “Like Mesopotamia, Egypt depended on the waters of a great river system” (Adler 33). This is one of the similarities between the two countries. They both relied on water systems to keep the countries afloat. A difference was “Egypt was static and Mesopotamia was dynamic” (Fish notes). Egypt was static because the desert that surrounded them so they did not have very many countries come there and introduce new things to the society. Mesopotamia on the other hand was constantly being flooded with different cultures and