Compare And Contrast Mesopotamian And Shang Dynasty

In terms of influence, no two civilizations are more prominent than that of the Mesopotamians and the Shang Dynasty. Two great empires, which grew and flourished in the clever hands of the people who lived there, who used the geography of their land to their advantage and became strong enough to govern and conquer masses. To this day, their legacies leave their mark on the culture, the traditions, and the lives of modern people. The Mesopotamians had a unique and prominent culture, as did the Shang, but be that as it may, they still had much in common as well.
The Mesopotamians are one of the first known civilizations to archeologists today. Dating back to 3500 B. C. E. Their society was built in between the Tigris and Euphrates River in the Middle East. In Mesopotamia, the more land you had, the more power you had. The overarching role of leadership took the form of a lugal. The lugal had control over all the irrigation systems in
They were both built in between rivers and both were clever enough to learn to build irrigation systems to effectively water crops and control flooding. They both had invented written languages, Pictograms and Cuneiform, which both have influenced language to this day. They both also upheld patriarchal systems, in which the men had all control over power and women were seen as little more than objects. In Shang little boys were coddled while the girls were given chores, and in Mesopotamia marriage regulations went so far as to cover the women from head to foot to prevent them from having their innocence taken. Both also had five different sections of social ranking that were similar in detail, where the monarch was on top, the noble and wealthy a step beneath, the artisans and successful owners who owned land proceeding, the people with no land but skills and jobs nonetheless, and finally, the unskilled, lacking of kinship ties, and