They both had political and religious power. In Mesopotamia the city's ruler, was thought to be related to a god. In Egypt, the pharaohs were thought to be gods or related to gods. In Egypt, the gods had heads like animals and bodies like humans.…
One of the major differences between Egypt and Mesopotamia was that Egypt had a well-organized durable empire while Mesopotamia did not. In Egypt they had a centralized government which meant that there was only one ruler who was the pharaoh. In Mesopotamia they had city states and in each city state they had a different ruler. This made Mesopotamia unstable compared to Egypt. Another difference between them is that Mesopotamia wrote the first set of laws known as the Code of Hammurabi which was created in 3,000 B.C. This was a legal system which tried to bring justice but it set social inequality. In religious structure, they differed because Mesopotamia believed god was not on earth and Egypt believed their Pharaoh was a god.…
Economically, both regions participated in trade that was under state control, and their economic growth was related to commerce. Although, Mesopotamia relied solely on imports, while Egypt had an import export system within its region along the Nile. Mesopotamia was…
Despite the fact that both Mesopotamia and Egypt were first developing around the same time, natural forces and the environment caused variations in many cultural developments such as political systems, religious views, and much more. Their biggest differences were dependent on the river-valleys they lived in and how that affected the way they managed agriculture, as well as their view of their gods. One similarity that Mesopotamia and Egypt did have was that both civilizations developed a system of writing and keeping records.…
Mesopotamia and Egypt were two of the very first civilizations dating back to 3500 BCE. Their cultures were very similar, but were very different. In what ways were their cultures similar and different? Mesopotamia is similar to Egypt in that both were based around a river system and they both created their own form of writing. These two civilizations are very similar, but they are also different in that their structures are used for different purposes and Mesopotamians invented more important things.…
Last, in Mesopotamia they had a government based strongly on Theocracy and in Egypt, they had a government based on the Pharaohs. The Mesopotamians thought the gods ruled the land and they were their leaders and in contrast, the Egyptians had Pharaohs who they followed and believed to be their leaders. Ultimately, the floodings of the two large rivers affected every aspect, of both the Mesopotamians and Egyptians way of life. Due to these floodings Mesopotamians and Egyptians formed two very different ways of life. These different views of life caused two different religions to form between Mesopotamia and Egypt. Due to the differences in religions in Mesopotamia and Egypt this caused their way of government, to be much…
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.…
Historians have come up with certain criteria they believe a society must obtain in order for it to be considered a civilization. These criteria are that the society must be stratified, must contain monumental architecture, and must have a formal system of law and order. Other historians may argue that writing must be part of a society in order for it to be considered a civilization, but that is not a criterion that is certainly agreed upon. According to this definition of a civilization, I conclude that both the ancient societies of Mesopotamia and Athens can both be considered civilizations.…
Geological features can positively and negatively effect the development of a nation or a region. Ancient civilizations such as ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia drastically relied on the resources rivers provided for them. Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamian both had similar and different reasons and benefits for using the rivers.…
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…
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…
How did religion compare between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Both Mesopotamia and Egypt were polytheistic societies. The flooding of the rivers had to do with the consistency of the gods. In both societies priests are at the top of the class system. They play a major part in religion. The gods were pictured differently in these societies. A few of the Egyptian gods were Ra, Anubis, and Osiris. A few of the Mesopotamian gods were Ashur, Anu, and Enki .…
Egypt was a monarchy and Mesopotamia was a democracy. In Egypt, the Pharaoh was in charge of making laws and owned everything, meanwhile, in Mesopotamia, there were many kings in different city-states and they did not own people’s belongings. A difference is that the land was measured differently. In Mesopotamia, they divided the land into city-states. Also, both civilizations thought differently about their kings. In Egypt, the Pharaoh was considered a god. Meanwhile, Mesopotamia believed that the kings weren’t gods so they didn’t worship them as gods. At one point, when the Assyrians were expanding a lot, the city-state got cut up into provinces. The ancient egyptians wrote hieroglyphics about the profits, costs and laws civilians made. In Mesopotamia, the scribes would draw pictograms on clay boards. While Egyptians trusted their justice goddess to teach right from wrong among their citizens, Mesopotamians would follow Hammurabi's law that demanded and Eye for an Eye. With this law, the offended person would be free to do the same thing he suffered at the hands of the criminal. In Mesopotamia would have a voice and a vote for city matters as going to war or not meanwhile Egypt didn’t have a voice. Everything was decided by the Pharaoh. So after all, there are differences and similarities between these dissimilar civilizations that…
In comparing both they had important similarities corresponding to their society, some of their features were from early civilizations. Both Egypt and Mesopotamia foreground power structure, with a noble, landowning group on the near top and a…