Context: When? Where? Summarize Unit in one sentence. Egypt and Mesopotamia‚ located in the modern Middle East and North Africa‚ were two of the earliest civilizations that reigned for thousands of years before the Birth of Christ‚ and created a pathway for later powerful empires through invention and innovation and greatly influence modern civilization. Umbrella thesis (Goes from broad to specific) – follow the ACODA rule: Answers the question; Clear‚ Overarching (not a list)‚ Doable‚ Argumentative-
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Andres Mederos AP World History The Differences between ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia There are many differences between the two civilizations like Government‚ Burials ‚ Technology‚ and language. Now these can be the same but there not because these civilizations had there own ways on how to control what they believed and how they would sustain themselves. Now the Burial techniques that the Egyptians used was very clever and like professionally done because they thought in the after life
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The early civilizations of the world developed many revolutionary innovations that would pave the way for future generations. Many of these ancient innovations have been refined for modern use‚ making our society that much more efficient. The civilizations of Sumer‚ Egypt‚ India‚ and China were at the forefront of ancient creativity. Their innovations‚ though different in many ways‚ all contributed to the society we live in today. The Sumerians‚ for instance‚ developed the wheel‚ which is known as
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There were four main ancient River Valley civilizations: the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia‚ the Nile River of Egypt‚ the Indus River of India‚ and the Yellow River of China. These civilizations showed specific similarities and contrasting differences. Many of these differences and similarities showed up in the three categories of the technological advances‚ the types of government‚ and the geography of the civilization. Two civilizations that are very interesting to delve deeper into and study
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The Cultural Development of ancient Egyptians and ancient Chinese civilizations were fairly similar but were different on certain ideas. From the way historians looked at the number of gods/goddesses each civilization worshipped‚ to the inventions and tools the craftsman made to make life less difficult shows the similarity of the two civilization. Both couture’s buried their dead with items of value‚ practiced ancestor worship‚ had elaborate systems of Bureaucratic systems of administration and
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World History Period:8 9/29/12 Comparing: Egypt and Mesopotamia Although Mesopotamia and Egypt were similar in terms of their writing system‚ they differ with technology. The Mesopotamian’s both were one of the first civilizations to invent the writing system. Both places started with pictographs. On the other hand‚ the Mesopotamian’s invented more important things than the Egyptians‚ such as the wheel and the sailboat. Mesopotamia and Egypt both had the same types of religions‚ including
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Ancient Egypt and Ancient China are two of the oldest continuous civilizations. Both Ancient China and Ancient Egypt made great contributions to future civilizations. Several similarities and differences exist between these two Ancient civilizations. Areas where similarities and differences exist are Religion‚ Afterlife‚ and Society. Ancient China has been around for about 1.7million years. Starting with the Xia Dynasty‚ in the 21st century B.C. China has been one of the oldest lost civilizations
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Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia have many similarities‚ but also many differences. They had similarities in social values‚ religious views and economic surplus‚ and differences in social values‚ political values‚ writing‚ religious views and economic surplus; they had more differences than similarities. In ancient times‚ they did not have money; but in order for society to function‚ they would have had to have something to barter with. Both societies treasured land‚ livestock and droops. Both societies
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development of a nation or a region. Ancient civilizations such as ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia drastically relied on the resources rivers provided for them. Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamian both had similar and different reasons and benefits for using the rivers. Firstly‚ the Nile River is located in Egypt. Egypt is divided into “Upper Egypt” and “Lower Egypt”. The Nile delta region (a marshy area of land that deposits silt at the mouth of the river) begins in upper Egypt and the Nile delta region
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Egypt and Mesopotamia have both similarities and differences; one aspect that was very different between Egypt and Mesopotamia was the government. In Egypt‚ they had just one leader‚ the pharaoh. Egypt would have needed this strong central government for projects such as organizing and overseeing of the pyramid buildings. The early Mesopotamians used a city-state type government. Each area was controlled by its own political and economic center. Each area was a separate political unit. The social
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