3.What empire controlled the region before European mandates? The empires of Assyrians, Babylonians and Egyptians…
Mesopotamia was surrounded by most of the world's ancient highly developed and social complex states. Mesopotamia was considered one of the four riverine civilizations because at that time writing began or was invented and also, that’s when the Nile Valley in Egypt developed. Egypt was a second civilization that grew up in northeastern Africa, along the Nile River. The Egyptian civilization began its formation by 3000 B.C., which was mainly benefited by the Mesopotamia technological influence and trade, but differ from their culture and society.…
The location of the Nile was ideal for Egyptians, and the long river provided transportation for traders, sailors, and government officials. The Nile’s location, in between the Western and Eastern deserts (Doc. A), was perfect because deserts were relatively impossible for armies to travel across because of the lack of drinkable water and eatable food. The Nile was also bordered by the Nubian Desert to the south (Doc. A). Finally, to the north,…
| Egypt's Nile River flooded annually, depositing a rich layer of topsoil ideal for growing, and her wide swaths of desert to the east and west protected her against outside invasion.…
| -empires included ‘Old Kingdom,’ ‘Middle Kingdom,’ ‘New Kingdom.’-a pharaoh was ruler in areas-commoners could gain statuses by government work-gained political ideas from Mesopotamian ways (which was caused/influenced by Mesopotamian conquers/settlements/explorers)…
Egypt and Mesopotamia had more differences than similarities, mainly being the predictable versus the unpredictable flooding of its nearby rivers and the isolation of Egypt due to the deserts located on both sides of the Nile River. While the deserts provided natural protection against invaders it also reduced interaction with other people. The desert protection would cause Egypt to develop mostly in isolation and therefore a very unique culture formed whereas in Mesopotamia the Sumerian innovations in achieving civilization set examples that other cultures would…
In the life of Egypt and Mesopotamia there were similarities and differences. There are comparisons in culture, social class, and gender. Also parallelism in their religions existed however, the differences found, clearly define them as individual entities.…
As seen in Document B, the Nile had a yearly flood cycle that fertilized the land surrounding it. This flood cycle was made up of three parts. The first part lasted from Mid- June to Mid- October. This time was called Akhet; it consisted of all the fields being flooded with water and fertilized by new silt. The second part lasted from Mid- October to Mid- February. This was called Peret. It was when the waters lowered but were still high enough to fill the irrigation canals; the crops were then planted and tended to. The third part lasted from Mid- February until Mid- June. This was called Shemu; it was the harvest season.…
was a gift from the Nile. My road map is that the Nile gave the people available recourses like water…
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2. What might be the meaning of the animals represented on the Lyre sound box (fig. 2.14a)?…
The root of the differences between the Mesopotamian cultures lies within the politics. The two cultures operated very differently as Mesopotamia was ruled regionally while Egypt used a more centralized government. Kings in the Mesopotamian region formed city states ruled by leaders of their armies while they just oversaw what was going on via these mediums. On the other hand, Egyptian culture featured “god-kings” or pharaohs that controlled much larger expanses of land than Mesopotamian leaders did. Logically, it makes sense that this would occur because of the differences in influence for these two regions. For example, unification of Egypt was inspired by Sudan’s use of small kingdoms that governed the agriculture of the rulers. The Egyptians then faced competition which caused their small kingdoms to conquer neighboring kingdoms to the point where they controlled much larger territories. The notion of kings and pharaohs leads into another difference. Mesopotamian societies featured monarchies as they were led by kings while Egyptians had a theocracy as pharaohs were divine rulers. In Mesopotamia it is figured that their monarchs evolved from men making decisions on behalf of their whole…
The geography of Mesopotamia and North Africa (from now on referred to as Egypt) are very similar. Within those similarities are a few differences in the way the two civilizations dealt with and the land. Both civilizations lived near rivers that tended to flood and enrich the soil. Mesopotamia centered on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and dealt with the flooding by building large-scale irrigation and drainage ditches with the intervention of the state. Egypt, however, lived by the Nile River and used irrigation without the help of the state. The flooding in both civilizations enriched the soil making it great for farming. The major difference between Mesopotamia and Egypt is in security. Egypt had natural barriers in the North, South, East and West which protected it from invasion and gave a sense of isolation. Mesopotamia on the other hand had no barriers so they had to build walls around their cities which were prone to constant invasion.…
Like most civilizations of that time, the power of the people was held in the hands of the person in charge of the grain. In both Mesopotamia and Egypt, someone was appointed to be in charge of the grain and other agricultural products, on the other hand, the person in Mesopotamian culture that was in charge of the grain was usually a priest, and in Egypt it was usually an appointed official. City-states made up the Mesopotamian societies, and often neighboring empires invaded each other. Conversely, the Egyptian invaders were mostly from other areas of Africa rather than neighboring people. The reason behind the different types of invasion was due to the way the civilizations were split up. Egypt split in two, lower and upper Egypt, and Mesopotamia did not have definite territories in it, because of the way it was split, it effected where trading was possible. Trade routes accurately illustrate the way both societies interacted with surrounding empires. Both empires traded with the surrounding peoples, however, the Egyptians expanded their trade networks much farther than the Mesopotamians. The two civilizations did however trade with each…
5. How did the pharaohs use the wealth that flowed into Egypt from surrounding territories?…