The Huang He River Valley Civilization

The Huang He River gave birth to a Chinese civilization which was mostly isolated from the other parts of the world. This early Chinese civilization was located far from the Egyptian civilization that formed along the Nile River. Despite the distance, these two civilizations made almost identical advancements that shaped their daily life and cultures, and shared similar ideas in ruling their societies. China and Egypt’s cultures are alike because both civilizations made similar advancements in writing, technology, and architecture, and believe in a polytheistic religion; however, each civilization possesses different religious ideas that influence their respective social structures differently. Their political structures have similar monarchies that rule with religious power, but the pharaoh’s effective rule in Egypt sustained much longer than the Shang dynasty ruled by Chinese kings.
Many aspects of Chinese and Egyptian culture such as their writing, religion, technology, and idea of social structures were similar to each other. The Chinese writing was based on ideographs, and much like the Egyptian hieroglyphics, many of the characters were simple pictograms as well. These two systems of writing are both currently decipherable, and provided both civilizations an easy way to record their history. Much of their writing was dedicated to religious rituals or ceremonies. Egypt and China civilizations both held polytheistic religious views. Many Egyptian gods were gods of nature such as Ra: the sun god, or Yamm: the God of the Sea. Likewise, some of the most important Chinese gods included Yu-huang: the sky god, Feng Po Po: a wind god, and Lei-Kung: a god of thunder and lightning. Aside from their similarities of religion, they both separately made technological advancements that improved daily life such as mathematical concepts, complex irrigation systems, and a calendar to record divisions of time. Each civilization and similar social structures based on wealth. The