Egypt And Mesopotamia Similarities

Mesopotamia and Egypt are politically similar in that they both use religion to prop up their government and their leaders are absolute rulers; yet they are politically different in that Egypt is ruled by a “God” and Egypt’s law was based on the concept of Ma'at while Mesopotamia is ruled by a divine King and had the law Code of Hammurabi. Mesopotamia and Egypt are economically similar in that they both use agriculture to produce wheat and barley and they both encage in trade in the mediterranean; yet they are politically different in that Egypt relies on the annual flood of the Nile to produce crops and they primarily exported grain while Mesopotamia relies on large irrigation systems and they mostly traded wool and oils.

As we know, Mesopotamia