Mesopotamia was also divided into city-states. The religions of the Nile River Valley and the Tigris and Euphrates River valley were very different. The Egyptians worshiped their gods and thought that they brought them good things while the Mesopotamians feared their gods and thought that they caused storms when they were angry. The Nile River Valley and the Tigris and Euphrates River valley both had similar governments and ways to divide their country but when it came to religion they both had very different approaches. Both of the river valley civilizations had an absolute monarch but the Nile had a Theocracy while the Mesopotamians had a Monarchy.
Even though Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia were similar they also showed many differences. Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt in the period of antiquity shared their similarities and their differences. Despite war and trade they did not imitate each other much. While Egypt emphasized strong central authority, whereas Mesopotamian politics shifted more often over a substructure of regional city-states. Since Egypt emphasized a strong unified kingdom, Egypt had a large bureaucracy, run by pharaohs who were worshiped as gods.
Byzantine and Egypt The Byzantine Empire and Egypt were two very different places to live in the ancient world, with very different cultures and practices. Both of these civilization’s governments were led by religious men, and religion was an important part of everyday life for the people that lived there. However, these place’s religions and the way that they practiced them were very different. People in Egypt were polytheistic, whilst the people of the Byzantine Empire were, being Christians, monotheistic. (The ancient Egyptians believed in a plethora of gods, while the Christians of the Byzantine Empire believed in just one).
Egypt did not trade as much as Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia traded along and though conquest and expansion. The similarities of Egypt and Mesopotamia were achieved technologies, location, and society. The differences were trade, expansion, and irrigation. Egypt and Mesopotamia have plenty of similarities
They accepted that these religions had flaws in them, such as a lack of justice by the gods that ruled. A select few people were able to challenge these pagan religions and evoke change and an increase in justice and fairness that was that was not had when the older gods were most prominent. The first civilization began around 5200 years ago, or 3200 BC. The people of this booming civilization, known as Sumerians, lived in an area known as Mesopotamia. This area was the fertile land that was found between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
In all royal burials, with the exception of Akhenaten, the deceased needed both a funerary temple and a tomb. Tutankhamun's tomb, KV62, was oddly small for a pharoah. This is believed to be because of his sudden death at the age of 18. His tomb was prepared by Ay, the net pharoah, so it is possible that it is Ay's beliefs present in Tutankhamun's tomb. The burial chamber of Tutankhamun's tomb contains elements of both Am Duat beliefs and Osiris cult beliefs as shown in Source J.
Mesopotamia and Egypt are two examples of this. In the following paragraphs, there will be comparisons on how Mesopotamia and Egypt were similar, contrast on Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Mesopotamia and Egypt are similar in many ways. Both were developed by major rivers that were important in the history of the civilizations. The rivers flooded quite frequently and turned the near by land into marshes.
They had an understanding of gods or other spirits beyond this world and felt that the human spirit had a way to transcend this world and live among them. Burial for the deceased was important part of an ancient Egyptian’s life. The entombment process they used from beginning to end became one of the central pieces of Egyptian culture. As soon as a person died the entombment process began. The Egyptians did not make a strong distinction between body and soul as many other cultures do.
Egypt’s history was, and still is, almost entirely determined by what happened on and around the natural phenomena of its great river wrote Solomon (2010). One of the best descriptions of the Nile River was written by Herodotus: “Egypt Is the Gift of the Nile”. Its geographical position and the very fertile soil made Egypt a very prosperous nation. To the West side is located the Sahara Desert, and to the East is the Arabian Desert. Those two deserts served as natural restrainers of outside military invaders.
Paragraph 2: Egypt believed in a more hopeful outlook while Mesopotamia didn’t thinking that the gods were partying at the human’s expense. This is because… * Egypt had more security leading them to not be as highly militarized and have more peace than Mesopotamia due to many factors including the cataracts on the Nile River * Egypt also had predictable annual floods of the Nile River bringing surplus and prosperity to the citizens (till 2200 BCE when Egypt had a dry spell and diminished their views of the Pharaoh) * Believed highly ranked Egyptians had access to eternal life and even some peasants (All depended how far you were buried from the tomb of the pharaoh after dead) * This lead to Egyptians believing in their Pharaoh who brought messages from god and also that god was there to help them so life would continue forever. * On the other hand, Mesopotamia was an area of upheaval and constant fighting * Unlike Egypt, they viewed humankind as caught in a disorderly world subject to quarrelling gods who would fight at the human’s