How was Egypt different from Mesopotamia?

Question

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Answer 1

Do you mean ancient civilizations?
Mesopotamia is considered to be the first real civilization around 3500 B.C. They learned how to irrigate crops using the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, being the first civilization to ever do so. They also had an advanced social pyramid with priests at the top and common ppl on the lowest level. They construced Ziggurates that were leveled temples to a certain diety. They were also the civilization that created cuneiform. That is a type of writting using pictographs. It is considered to be the first system of writting. it was written on wedged shapes of clay. Also, Hammurabi created the first written code of laws.

Egypt was a civilization that orginated around the Nile river. They of course built the pyramids, and irrigated their crops from the Nile river. They had a huge pantheon of Gods and a rich society. Pharohs were the head of the government. They used Hieroglyphics and hieratic.

Thats just pretty much a basic overview, the rest you can do yourself. There is plenty of research material on the web you can check out.

Answer 2

Differences between Mesopotamia and Egypt
Ancient Egypt was built to the southeast of Mesopotamia. Egypt was built in the fertile area on both sides of the Nile River. The basis for Mesopotamia was in the Fertile Crescent, specifically the area between the Tigris and Euphrates River. Both of these civilizations were created around a very important source, water.

Water is a very important basis of life. It is only natural that civilization start around such an essential source. The water was important for many reasons. The most important reason was agriculture. As many of Egyptian's paintings show, grain was a very important element in society. In Mesopotamia the planting wasn't limited to just the riverbank where it flooded. Mesopotamians used canals.

The social structure of Mesopotamia and Egypt were different. In Mesopotamia there was no gender equality. However, in ancient Egypt, as exampled in female pharos, females had more opportunities to rise in life. In Mesopotamia, although they had different classes of slaves, they were still treated like property. In both societies the very few elite held enormous wealth, while the common people normally just got by day-by-day.

One aspect that was very different in both Egypt and Mesopotamia was the government. In Egypt, most of the time 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 economical center. Each area was a separate political unit.

Mesopotamia had advanced metallurgy techniques for working with bronze, lead, silver, and gold. Because examples of the pottery spun on a wheel were found from about 3000 B.C., the invention wheel is credited to Mesopotamia. We still don't know all of the technology that Egypt use used to build the pyramids. The architecture and engineering skills involved still have modern experts amazed. While the Mesopotamian's didn't have anything quit to scale with the pyramids, they did use and build ziggurats.

Both civilizations were centered on religion. Egypt believed in many gods. Even the pharaohs were believed to be gods. The gods Mesopotamia believed in tended to be absolute rulers to whom the people owed total devotion. In both civilizations religious leaders were given very high status and held in high regard.

Cities, architecture, and lots of small inventions are credited from having come from these two civilizations. One of the most noticeable achievements we received was writing. Mesopotamia also created the earliest recoded rules for improving life ever found. We have barely even begun to realize and understand all the legacies that were handed down from these two civilizations.

Answer 3

Mesopotamia believed in the afterlife very strongly.
Egypt did not have such a strong beileve

Answer 4

They are in different parts of the world for a start. Egypt is in North Africa whereas Mesopatamia is in Asia Minor.
If you are referring to their civilisations, then Mesopotamia was older than Egypt.

Answer 5

ok first off, not a real good idea to say ill report you if you dont answer right..... not very nice, but even though you werent very nice, i will be...


mesopotamia was a region.. egypt is a country.....

most basic answer i can give you

Answer 6

Were The Mesopotamians