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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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    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 MesopotamiaEgypt 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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    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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    Egypt was and will be one of the best countries ever. Egypt from many years till now is facing so many problems. Some of these problems are increasing and some are decreasing. But all of them have a solution. This problems that Egypt is facing are finding garbage everywhere‚ having extra population which will lead to have driving horrible‚ having pollution in every single thing‚ finding poor people in every single thing‚ finding poor people in every single street that you walk in‚ and there are

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    Ancient Mesopotamia

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    Mesopotamia (from Greek‚ meaning between two rivers - the Tigris and the Euphrates) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean (corresponding to today’s Iraq‚ mostly‚ but also parts of modern-day Iran‚ Syria and Turkey). The ancient ruins of Sumer were discovered in the 19th century. We know a lot about Sumer through the study of artifacts and monuments found onsite. Dated anywhere from 4000-6000 BC‚ Sumer is the oldest known culture on Earth and Sumerians were the first to build cities in

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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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    civilization of Mesopotamia had its first settlements dating back since 10‚000 BCE. Due to this‚ it is considered as one of the birthplace of civilizations. Mesopotamia was also known as “the country between two rivers.” (Chilvers‚ 2007) These two rivers that surrounded this fertile land were the Tigris and the Euphrates. I believe that both rivers were one of the significant environmental factors that contributed to the development of the ancient civilization known as Mesopotamia. (Hollar‚ 2011)

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    1. What aspects of life in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt made them the first Western civilizations? To what extent does civilization depend on urban life? What are the general characteristics of urban life that can be identified regardless of historical period? Mesopotamia and Egypt gained knowledge to successfully sustain and utilize their surroundings. They also built canals to supply water‚ and utilized the soil to grow crops for trade. In doing this‚ it helped produce surpluses sufficient

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