Comparing The Achievements Of The Sumerian, And Egyptian Civilizations

Several different scientists estimated that human beings have lived on earth for millions of years and since then, an abundant amount of achievements have developed along the way. In order for humans to survive and thrive in the environment they are living in, they must learn to use materials around them to the best of their abilities. The culture for people to survive in the early civilization compare to the culture of today’s society are very different. However, many different achievements of the civilizations long ago are still in use in today’s time. The different achievements of the Sumerians, Babylonian, and the Egyptian civilizations are still used in today’s life time and contribute in today’s culture. The Sumerians achievements revolved
These laws were set up for every person with in the community. Hammurabi who started the set of laws believed that in order to keep peace and order in the society; they must have strict set of guidelines for people to follow and know what to do. An example of what the Code of Hammurabi consisted of was “if a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye”. The strictness of the punishment if anyone broke anyone of the code helped Hammurabi have power over his people and order in the civilization. With the Code of Hammurabi, the citizens knew right from wrong which gave order with in the society. Like the Babylonia civilization, our society has laws similar to the Code of Hammurabi such as the Constitution, common laws, and state laws. The achievement of the Code of Hammurabi contributed to today’s time by in order for there to be order and peace, a society must have a set of laws to be put in place. The judicial system is an example of a present day resemblance of the Code of
Some of the use of the Nile was for drink, irrigation, trading and washing clothes. The people of the Egypt were known to use the source of the Nile River for irrigation to help the plants and soil for farming crops. In order to do so, the Egyptian build dams and created canals based on where they wanted the water to meet. This process of irrigation became a popular methods that other arable lands started using irrigation to form crops. Irrigation was an important part of the Egyptians lives because it supported the people with food and allow them to control their own supply of resources. The Egyptians using the irrigation to maintain their crops became a result of many other civilization using the same method today. Even though how we use irrigation is more advance than how the Egyptians accomplished the task, overall it’s the same principle of controlling the water source and specifically using it over the crops. Farmers today use irrigation to enrich their crops by using irrigation to keep plants in healthy