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    Besides Mesopotamia, a second civilization grew up in northeastern Africa, along the Nile River. Egyptian civilization, formed by 3000 B.C., benefited from trade and technological influence from Mesopotamia, but it produced a quite different society and culture. In both Mesopotamia and Egypt, the physical environment that surrounded both civilizations impacted the development of both cultures heavily. Similarly, both cultures derived most of their needs from their sources of water. In Egypt, the

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    Mesopotamia In this essay I am going to be talking about Mesopotamia and all of its glory. I will be covering a pretty large time frame from 2340 BCE to 539 BCE to tell you what you need to know about this great civilization. A few questions I will be answering will be why the Mesopotamia people chose this geographic region to be their home, what characteristics of this region allowed Mesopotamian civilizations to develop, and how the geographical characteristics impacted the structure of the society

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    Mesopotamia and Egypt’s civilization were developed near the river valleys, which were the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the Nile river. Their rivers were different, though. The Nile river had an annual replenishing of soil and water for Egypt’s agriculture. The Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia also had an annual rising of water, except that the water would sometimes flood their crops. Mesopotamia’s safety was lower than Egypt’s. Mesopotamia was out in the open land with no barriers to hinder

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    Mesopotamia and Egypt are two of the oldest and most famous civilizations in the history of the world. Mesopotamia and Egypt were both River-Valley civilizations, yet, their political, social, and cultural beliefs developed differently due to their geographic location. The rise of these early river valley civilizations occurred around the same period of time. Both Mesopotamia and Egypt grew alongside mighty rivers, however, Mesopotamia developed between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers while the

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    Mesopotamia, comes from the Greek word meaning land between rivers. I learned this in my mesopotamia project. I will teach you a little more about mesopotamia in this essay. First let's talk about the land. I learned that there are two different rivers the Euphrates, and Tigris river. Back then these rivers were separated into two different rivers. Now the unite before they empty in the persian river. Mesopotamia had a lot of plentiful fish. A lot of our inventions are made by

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    Mesopotamia and Egypt are similar in many ways, but they also have share many differences between each other. Somes of the differences and similarities are how these civilizations were governed, how the geography affected the people of these civilizations the types of gods and different religions they worshiped. Geography influenced both Mesopotamia and Egypt. However the geography that Egypt had made for a much easier lifestyle and they definitely did not struggle as much as Mesopotamia did. Egypt

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    Egypt and Mesopotamia have many similar or different places in their geography, economy, cultural and political society. These two civilization brought a lot of brilliant innovations to the later generations. Egypt and Mesopotamia were developed in the two various geographical places. Mesopotamia was located in the middle east. It was set alone the banks of Tigris and Euphrates rivers. According to development of the irrigation, people required group effort. So Sumerians established the first cities

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    Fig. 24. This occurs as another likeness from a cylinder seal of a horned man/beast found in area of ancient Mesopotamia. Goat Creatures in the Middle East In Syria, a province of Mesopotamia, the discovery of a black steatite cylinder seal occurs having solid chiseled markings of a goat, surrounded by stars, a crescent moon, and a sacred tree; appearing as a god-king, dating 1800-1600 B.C. Concurrently this endures among other numerous cylinder seals with goats or horned goatmen cut in ancient

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    irrigation, and such forth became highly important. They even determined the power and wealth of civilizations. Mesopotamia and Egypt were the leading civilization that held immense power, wealth due to their innovations. However, they both had their own ways of gaining wealth, along with caring for resources they had that promised the well-being of the people. Therefore, Mesopotamia and Egypt have many differences, yet many similarities. By 7000 BCE, around the time when the neolithic revolution

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    Mesopotamia and Egypt were very different cultures and the way of life contrasted dramatically. Religion in Mesopotamia and Egypt was based off of many different aspects of their culture and land, but geography was a large influence in the way that the Mesopotamians and the Egyptians created their religion. In Mesopotamia, religion was created as a way to explain the unexplainable. People wanted to give a reason for the floods and other setbacks they had in their region. Therefore, the gods were

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