Mesopotamia Compare And Contrast
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, however they were incredibly similar in their formation of science and language.
Egypt and Mesopotamian religious beliefs were vastly different. One reason for this having to do with their geography. A primary reason we have religion is to explain things …show more content…
They thought the afterlife was good and if you did good things in life you would be rewarded. Its no surprise for that these reasons religion was also a much bigger deal to Egyptians than to Mesopotamians.
Egypt and Mesopotamia were formed very differently, one by the slow unification of many city states and the other by the almost direct formation of a unified nation state. Early in its history Mesopotamia was a dozen or so independent city states in the southern TigrisEuphrates region and this was known as Sumer. Each City state was ruled by its own king, but eventually they were all conquered and unified by stronger forces from the north such as the Akkadians,
Babylonians and Assyrians. On the other hand, in Egypt, they went basically straight from agricultural settlements along the nile and maybe some small chiefdoms to a nation state all unified by the first Pharaoh; Narmer. Egypt was unified almost without conflict for the entirety of its existence save for when the Nile failed to flood properly, then the authority
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, however they were incredibly similar in their formation of science and language.
Egypt and Mesopotamian religious beliefs were vastly different. One reason for this having to do with their geography. A primary reason we have religion is to explain things …show more content…
They thought the afterlife was good and if you did good things in life you would be rewarded. Its no surprise for that these reasons religion was also a much bigger deal to Egyptians than to Mesopotamians.
Egypt and Mesopotamia were formed very differently, one by the slow unification of many city states and the other by the almost direct formation of a unified nation state. Early in its history Mesopotamia was a dozen or so independent city states in the southern TigrisEuphrates region and this was known as Sumer. Each City state was ruled by its own king, but eventually they were all conquered and unified by stronger forces from the north such as the Akkadians,
Babylonians and Assyrians. On the other hand, in Egypt, they went basically straight from agricultural settlements along the nile and maybe some small chiefdoms to a nation state all unified by the first Pharaoh; Narmer. Egypt was unified almost without conflict for the entirety of its existence save for when the Nile failed to flood properly, then the authority