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    Kyle Fuller Arakawa World Civilization 110-29 21 September 2006 Compare and Contrast: Mesopotamia and Egypt In the time of the agricultural age‚ two civilizations arose out of the plenteous food and raging waters. These two early civilizations were Mesopotamia and Egypt. Although many similarities can be drawn between the two‚ they each proved to be very different from each other in social‚ political‚ and religious systems as well as their stability and defeat. One factor they did have in

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    WHAP Comparative Essay While both Mesopotamia and China are arguably the most influential‚ prominent and successful civilizations of their time and region‚ China’s advanced government‚ agricultural success‚ sophisticated number system‚ complex irrigation and overall stability prompts it to be the greatest impact on today’s society. Mesopotamia‚ as well as China‚ developed languages- both written and spoken- that are still somewhat used today. These languages were used as framework for later

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    From 3500-1500 BCE‚ Mesopotamia and Egypt emerged as two of the first river- valley civilizations. Although they came to be around the same time‚ they became different in their cultural aspects‚ such as universal views and classes‚ and economies due to differences in commerce. Both Mesopotamia and Egypt have different universal views‚ which then affected their culture. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers of Mesopotamia have unpredictable flood patterns. This affected their view of the universe because

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    compare and contrast mesopotamia‚ egypt‚ and harappan civilization politically‚ socially‚ and economically. 8) Antony and Cleopatra – Octavia’s wife‚ Cleopatra‚ had an affair with Mark Antony. They fell in love after the Battle of Philippi. Antony conquered land in the East with Cleopatra’s money. They had three children together. In 33 BCE‚ the civil breaks out; and in 31 BCE‚ the Battle of Actium begins. Antony kills himself in 30 BCE‚ eleven days later‚ Cleopatra kills herself. 9) Pax Romana

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    Egypt And Mesopotamia Although the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations paved the way modern civilizations‚ they have more differences that are illustrated in the areas of military‚ agriculture & society‚ and government types. Egypt spent most of its history as a unified monarchy‚ whereas Mesopotamia seems to have begun as a collection of city-states (known as Sumeria) and continued to be dominated by a pair of mutually hostile powers: Assyria and Babylon. As a result‚ Mesopotamia’s history

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    Similar to the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt‚ early civilizations that arose in India surrounded river valleys (pg.38). Since these civilizations arose‚ the geography of the land played a key role in the development of these civilizations. The land provided the civilizations with the perfect diversity of geographic features. This subcontinent is composed of multiple regions that are key to civilizations. First‚ “in the far north are the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges‚ home of the

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    Mesopotamia and Egypt At the time of the rise of the first civilizations‚ both Mesopotamia and Egypt were dominant civilizations. One could argue that the first civilizations had various similarities‚ but they also had many differences‚ that of which made them early civilizations. Both Mesopotamia and Egypt grew up in river valleys. Surrounding Mesopotamia were the Tigris and Euphrates rivers‚ and Egypt’s river source was the Nile. These civilizations depended on these rivers to have productive

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    The ancient river-valley civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt share many similarities in their social‚ political‚ economic‚ intellectual‚ and cultural aspects‚ however‚ at the same time; both are very separate from one another. Mesopotamia developed first as a civilization without influence‚ while Egypt built off of the latter to create their own society‚ hence the shared traits of their educational system‚ government‚ religion‚ and social structure. But‚ the variable of location also takes place;

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    Egypt and Mesopotamia vary drastically in land and geographic features due to its location. They had more differences than similarities which was a cause for the uniquely different cultures of each. In Southwest Asia‚ also commonly known as the Middle East‚ it is known mostly for its dry desert climate‚ except for in the region located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where the flat plain known as Mesopotamia is located. This region’s shape and the richness of its soil leads is also the reason

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    Mesopotamians served several gods. While Egypt had pharaohs governing its society‚ Mesopotamia was made of several city-states that competed for power. The social structures from Ancient Mesopotamia differs from Ancient Egypt both treated their women differently. In both Mesopotamia and Egypt religious leaders were given a very high status. In Egypt pharaohs were thought to be divine themselves‚ while in Mesopotamia they didn’t have a person they believed to be divine. Mesopotamian’s weren’t as optimistic

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