Comparing Ancient Egypt/America

In comparing Ancient Egypt and modern day Americas, I found a few similarities and differences in their every day lifestyles. Things like religion, government, social class, writing, and their job specializations. It was surprising to me to find out that the ancient Egyptians way of leaving was somewhat like ours. Of course there are heavier differences, but still they were very modern for their times. Also I am in strong belief that we learned many things that are in our culture today from Ancient Egypt.
In the category of job specialization the Egyptians had no real big corporations like we do today, but much simpler jobs. Some examples of their jobs are: artisans who were skilled craft workers, brick layers who built monuments and city walls, soldiers who defended the community, merchants who sold goods at there market place, and their entertainers were singers, dancers, and storytellers. In their society these were their jobs because they worked under a king and the making of individual profiting came later. So basically all the money was worked through there king. Some similarities of their civilization and ours is pretty much all the jobs listed above are the same ones we still have today, but instead of kings we work under bosses of individual corporations. We have also advanced our jobs a bit since then but the roots of our jobs come from those of the ancient Egyptians.
The Ancient Egyptians religious beliefs were very different then that of our own. They were Polytheistic, meaning that believed in their religion that there were many gods and not one supreme god. They had separate gods for things like war, the sun, embalming and they also believed that the pharaohs were gods. The entire civilization believed in the same thing, unlike America where we have many types of religions spread through the states. Also their priests and high religious figures were favored by the gods more then the average person. Many people still did many things like build