Geography * Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers in Greek. (rivers = Tigris and Euphrates) * It is located in western Asia. * It is also known as the world’s earliest urban civilizations. (arose around: 3500 bc) * Mesopotamia‚ known as “the cradle of civilization”‚ was the centre of Sumerian‚ Babylonian‚ Assyrian‚ and Chaldean civilizations. * The area now forms most of modern Iraq‚ south-eastern Turkey‚ and eastern Syria. * The natural wealth of Mesopotamia has always
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The rise of civilizations began with the settling of nomads. It was the end of hunting and gathering and the beginning of agriculture based civilizations. Early civilizations commonly settled near bodies of water for resources‚ created a form of writing‚ established a form of government‚ developed a form of religion‚ and established a hierarchy system. All of these are common features in the history of the rise of civilizations. The government of early civilizations was commonly run by either a
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Egypt and mesopotamia are two of the world’s oldest civilizations in history. These two civilizations both relied heavily on their geography to help them create and maintain their rule. Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies existed on the banks of major rivers. Egypt is located in northern africa along the nile river. Mesopotamia‚ meaning in greek‚ between two rivers‚ resides on what was once known as the fertile crescent on the Tigris and the euphrates rivers located in the Middle east. These rivers
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Mesopotamia (1) Some of the Mesopotamia cities were Ur‚ Hatra‚ Samarra‚ Nineveh‚ Lasgash‚ Nasiriyah‚ Assur‚ etc. The people within the cities were well known for the metal work‚ wooden textiles‚ and stoneware. (2) Mesopotamia’s government is known as theocracy‚ it consisted of each city having its own chief‚ working under a single ruler. (3) The Mesopotamia’s religion was polytheistic‚ the people strongly had a belief that the ziggurats connected heaven and earth. The gods or goddesses had
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gods‚ kill people in the name of their gods or sacrifice them as a tribute to them. This essay will discuss how religion shaped humanities in Ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. To begin‚ Mesopotamia‚ the land between the rivers is one of the first civilizations to rise. According to According to Adventures in the Human Spirit by Bishop‚ Mesopotamia was inhabited the Sumerians. The Sumerians invented monumental building and writing. Sumerian writing called cuneiform is made out of pictures stamped
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Andrew Schoonover Mrs. Temple AP World History 19 September‚ 2014 Egypt and Mesopotamia: Comparing and Contrasting (Final Draft) Around 6‚000 years ago‚ the ingredients necessary for civilization began to form independently from one another in several different places around the Earth. Two of the most famous and foremost of the early civilizations were Egypt and Mesopotamia. Egypt and Mesopotamia were fundamentally different in their religious beliefs and slightly different in their formation of city states versus unified states
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Egypt and Mesopotamia have both similarities and differences‚ throughout both of these civilizations from back to 3‚500 B.C. The political and social structures in these civilizations were different and the same in their own way. The political differences between Egypt and Mesopotamia included hierarchy power‚ land control‚ and centralized government. The similarities between both civilizations are social class‚ male patriarchy‚ and kings. Egypt and Mesopotamia both had differences of their political
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Mesopotamia and Egypt were one of the first known civilizations to ever be successful at that time. They were both very successful because of several different aspects of how they ran their civilizations. They both did things in ways that were smarter and better for their people. For both civilizations‚ they both had beliefs‚ ways of living and leaders. Egyptians and Mesopotamian people all had the same religion‚ called the polytheistic religion. This means they believed in many gods‚ and they were
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ANCIENT EGYPT 1. Geography and early civilization: Ancient Egypt was located in northeast Africa on the banks of the Lower Nile River‚ the longest river in the world. There were deserts that bordered Egypt on the east‚ south‚ and west with the Mediterranean Sea to the north. The river divided into channels to the north and formed the Nile Delta. Desert hill land was on the west of the Nile Valley and mountains were on the east. The ancient Egyptians thought of their country as being
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Civilizations are the cradles of humanity. Without this‚ we are an unorganized clutter of people with no chance of survival. But in a civilization‚ we depend on one another to keep the world stable and insure one another’s ability to live successfully. A civilization is many things but an accurate definition is “the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.” This shows that a civilization is very advanced form of life where there is a lot of social interaction
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