Lindsay Evans AP World Euro Fourth Block Friday August 27‚ 2010 Egypt and Mesopotamia Compare Contrast Essay Ancient Mesopotamia went through many different empires that shared similar parts cultural traits‚ where as Egypt went through several different rulers‚ but only a few dynasties. Mesopotamia lied in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers‚ and its main empires existed from 1650 BCE to around 330 BCE. The ancient Egyptian empires went through four main phases: The Archaic Period (3100-2600
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Carmen Fajardo Professor Xia History 1 Midterm 1. The Polis is a community of free persons making up a town. Each polis is a political and cultural unit‚ but is a distinct “Greek” culture. The two poleis that dominated Greek life and politics in the classical age were Athens and Sparta but differed greatly in their conceptions of the good life for their citizens. Athens was the center of Greek educational‚ artistic‚ and scientific activity‚ and was the birthplace of democracy. Sparta was a
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a. The visual arts of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt are similar and different in various ways. In Mesopotamia‚ animals were of great artistic characteristics within the visual works of art. For example the Plaque from the Soundbox of Great Lyre‚ Ur shows the use of animals within the artwork that was used for the tomb of a King’s grave. “The bearded bull’s head is a symbol of royalty often seen in Mesopotamia art.” This shows how important animals were within the culture and especially because it
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The Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages were both part of the Stone Age. The Paleolithic Age is considered the “Old Stone Age” while the Neolithic Age is the “New Stone Age.” During the Paleolithic era‚ humans had more of a nomadic lifestyle and tended to move with the herds. They used animal skins as clothing and chipped stones or animal bones as tools. Their main focus was to find food by hunting animals and gathering what they could from plants growing in the area. The Neolithic Age gave way
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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. In Egypt the social class was not so different than Mesopotamia’s. Egypt had social classes that were hierarchy. At the top of their social class it was the pharaohs and priests. Next came the artists‚ merchants‚ lesser priests‚ farmers‚ and
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After the Agricultural Revolution‚ the rise of civilizations scattered around the world‚ each one having various features that formed from their people and the land. Two civilizations that honed similarities and differences‚ Mesopotamia and Egypt‚ grew and adapted alongside river valleys—the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Nile respectively. Both civilizations turned to control and unify their people through ideas of class hierarchy and kingship. However‚ Mesopotamian life differed from Egyptian
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Mesopotamia and Egypt DBQ AP World History – Ms. Admire Gabriela Gutierrez Mesopotamia and Egypt Civilizations 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
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two of the civilizations‚ Mesopotamia and Egypt‚ had many similarities and differences about their customs and ideals. A few similarities between the civilizations were their agricultural ways and religions. A difference was their state building‚ expansion and conflict. First‚ there was a similarity in the two civilizations’ agricultural ways. In Mesopotamia and Egypt‚ there were rivers along them‚ the Nile River in Egypt and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia. They were both built around
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Ancient Mesopotamia is where modern Iraq is at nowadays. It was a collection of what we call city-states. It was a relatively small geographic area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. This land was called the fertile crescent.in the Neolithic revolution‚ the fertile crescent became an agricultural area‚ used the rivers flooding to set up fields and starting living a settled life. They were small and very isolated‚ which kept the are fragmented politically. When we think of civilization‚ we see
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“this is not a good law‚ get rid of it”. Mesopotamia was made up of city-states. It was one nation as a whole‚ but each city-state had it’s own government and own set of laws. City-states could also conquer one another for power and more territory. The city of Babylon became the most powerful city in Mesopotamia. Throughout history‚ the Babylonians would rise and fall. At times the Babylonians would create vast empires that ruled much of the Mesopotamia. The Babylonians were the first to write
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