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Apwh Summer Essay/River Valley Civilization
APWH Summer Essay/River Valley Civilization

My duties for this question are to compare and contrast Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations. While it is true that both civilizations originated approximately around the same time they do hold many differences which will be outline in the paragraphs below to the best of my ability. However vast, the difference may be, both civilizations also hold some similarities that will also be outline in the following paragraphs.The Mesopotamian civilization was the beginning of all civilized life within Southwest Asia. I will try to profile some of both cultures and civilizations achievements while also conveying how the both civilizations may have interacted, assimilated or otherwise been dissimilar from the other civilization. Now, Mesopotamian civilization transformed around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, while the Egyptian civilization transformed mainly around the Nile River, the Nile being the world longest rivers. Both civilizations relied on these rivers as a source of food, transportation, and even a means of communication amongst themselves.

Mesopotamia was a rather dry, however fertile floodplain that the aforementioned rivers created boundaries for. These rivers were boundaries for Mesopotamian civilization, but the boundaries stretched across a vast expanse of land. The Mesopotamian civilization strived and expanded because these rivers became a meeting place for the populous to share ideas, to trade goods and to communicate amongst themselves. Mesopotamian civilization had a distinction from Egyptian civilization in that they, the villages within their boundaries held and transformed differently, having a difference within building styles and art customs. The Egyptian civilization was fairly constant within those particular subjects having mimicked some values and traits developed from the latter part of the
Mesopotamian civilization's villages when they

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