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Similarities Between Ancient Egypt And Ancient Greece

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There are many similarities between Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt. This mostly has to do with the positioning of both countries, they were quite close and so trading was easy between them. Both ancient civilizations are well known for their numerous gods. The number and spread of these gods relate to the harsh conditions of both countries. The land in Egypt is only livable through the Nile which burst its banks each year and deposited silt in which the ancient Egyptians grew their crops. In Greece the land is mountainous and rocky, thus being hard to cultivate. The isolation of the towns or city states from one another creates the numerous amounts of gods. Many of the gods across Greece and Egypt will have different names but similar characteristics. Each town also had its own deity (Egypt) or patron …show more content…

In this manner, she created great lands upon which she might wander, a veritable universe, populating it with exotic creatures such as nymphs, Furies, and Charities, as well as with countless beasts and monsters. Also born out of Chaos were Gaia, called Earth, or Mother Earth, and Uranus, the embodiment of the Sky and the Heavens, as well as Tartarus, god of the sunless and terrible region beneath Gaia, the Earth. Gaia and Uranus married and gave birth to the Titans, a race of formidable giants, which included a particularly wily giant named Cronus. In what has become one of the recurrent themes of Greek Mythology, Gaia and Uranus warned Cronus that a son of his would one day overpower him. Cronus therefore swallowed his numerous children by his wife Rhea, to keep that forecast from taking place. This angered Gaia greatly, so when the youngest son, Zeus, was born, Gaia took a stone, wrapped it in swaddling clothes and offered it to Cronus to swallow. This satisfied Cronus, and Gaia was able to spirit the baby Zeus away to be raised in Crete, far from his grasping

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