Egypt And China Similarities

The river valley civilizations, ancient Egypt and China, were major cities with vast power and influence in the ancient world. Along came large and complex social structures, economics, and cultures. All three of those have similarities and differences between the two civilizations that greatly impacted the course of human history.

There are many civilizations built on rivers. These civilizations experience many advantages, and disadvantages because they live along rivers. Rivers give the natural resource of water. Throughout history many great countries thrived on rivers, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, to name a few. Water from a river can be useful and therefore some civilizations thrived on their rivers, and for other communities the river was their doom.

There are some big differnces in the religious beliefs and practices in Egypt and China. Two similarites between the two countries are their gods and afterlife. A major difference is the ways that any individual can get to their afterlife.

Nubia and Egypt are two different civilizations, but deep down in the roots of their government, environment, and agriculture, there are some similarities that can be brought up. Along with these similarities are differences. Such as how they both relied on the Nile River and both had Pharaohs, but Egypt was more isolated than Nubia.

Although China and Egypt are countries thousands of miles apart, their religions in the period before 600 B.C.E are similar in the ways that they had religious rituals and believed in life after death. They’re different in the fact that Chinese religion was centered around ancestors and Egyptian religion was centered around their leaders.

Ancient China and ancient India are both important and interesting ancient civilizations. They are alike and unlike in many ways. Some significant ways in which ancient India and China are similar and different are religion, art, economics, politics, and social structure.

Politically, China and Egypt were similar and different. China and Egypt were similar in their type of government because both civilizations had dynasties. Dynasties were a type of government where a civilization only had one leader who when they died would pass on the title of leader to a family member, usually a son. A great example of this in the Egyptian civilization is the Egyptian ruler, the Pharaoh. In the ancient Egyptian government, Pharaohs were their leaders, and was also a title passed down through the family as the previous one died, in fact, ancient Egypt had 31 different dynasties from 3000 BCE to 332 BCE. Just like Egypt, China was ran by a dynastic government, which was made up of a family that rose to power by claiming that they had a “Mandate From Heaven” which was a belief that the leader or family had their gods approval to rule. China and Egypt were different in how they governed their lands because in Egypt, the Pharaoh was the supreme leader and ruled with a cabinet of advisors and helpers who worked together

Ancient Egypt and Early China, though continents and ideologies apart, both depended upon a king leader to rule over those in their territories. Despite fundamental differences, each society developed a clear social hierarchy with the foundation of advanced civilization being the lesser educated workers or slaves, and being lead by

Another important factor is the rivers allowed civilizations to have more trade routes, and get to places inland faster, as well as the sea. The societies could trade their resources for ones they didn’t have, which allowed their technology to grow and their populations to expand. Trade “brought in new goods and immigrants” which allowed for an increase of resources and technology. Many of the River Valley Civilizations traded with each other sharing their technology.

Rivers can help develop different civilizations such as the Nile River. This great river measures thirty five hundred miles through many different countries (Orlin, 2010). The Nile helped to bring life, security and dictated how the people planned activities throughout the year. For example, the farmers would seed the land after the Nile would start swell and then recede to its normal banks (Orlin, 2010). This helped the seedlings to grow and then produce bountiful harvest. The Nile provided security for the Egyptian people by allowing the reeds and natural grasses around the bank of the river (Orlin, 2010). This would allow any enemy that wanted to attack to not

Ancient Egypt (3000 BCE – 30 BCE) and Ancient Greece (1200 BCE – 146 BCE) based their entire lives around their religious beliefs. These beliefs led to their religious practices which were included in every aspect of their lives. Since ancient Greece’s and ancient Egypt’s beliefs differ greatly, endless differences can be shown between their religious practices. However, between the two cultures, many surprising similarities can be seen in these religious practices despite the tremendous differences. Through learning about where their religious beliefs and practices started, the bigger picture of history in general can be learned. As well, the similarities between ancient Greece’s and ancient Egypt’s religious practices can be seen as not

The Warring States, from 403 to 221 B.C.E. divided ancient China. There are many similarities and differences between ancient Egypt and East Asia. Ancient Egypt had many similarities compared to East Asia. One similarity between the civilizations was the power of the rulers. In both civilizations, they were treated as they were gods and had heavenly powers.

Homo Sapiens, Humans first originated in 200 thousand B.C. from Africa. There were no physical records such as carving, drawing, or messages of some sort at this time in history. A couple thousand years later, humans began to evolve and travel all over the world. They began to invent new technology, create government systems, trading, and they kept writing records. There were different cultural characteristics such as, Sumer, Egypt, India, and China. Mostly focusing on Egypt and Sumer, had many similarities. For example they have similar governments, geography, and technology. Although these two groups lived very similar lives, they had many key characteristics that make them important throughout history.

The river valley civilizations had many characteristics that were similar in every valley. Two of these characteristics are rivers and natural barriers. These can either be advantages or disadvantages. These advantages and disadvantages can shape how an empire forms, survives, and how long it lasts. There are many advantages to forming civilizations in ancient river valleys.

Both Egyptian and Chinese have a long history. The civilization of ancient Egypt was start from the Nile River. Because the ancient Egyptian was live near the Nile River, so they are very admire the nature. The important idea of ancient Egypt was to make a balance of the relationship of human, nature and God. The civilization of China is petty much like ancient Egypt.