While the Nile River was predictable and easier to deal with, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were unpredictable. This meant that the Mesopotamians did not have a constant supply of crops due to the crops that were ruined by the rivers. On the other hand, the Egyptians had no trouble and their agriculture was rich. Therefore, the Mesopotamians were envious of the Egyptians and their environment. Although both civilizations had agriculture, they had different produces.
When talking about geography, religion, and political views, there were more differences than similarities within these two civilizations. Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia shared one key similarity in their geography; access to a major source of freshwater. For Egypt, it was the Nile River and for Mesopotamia, it was the Tigris and Euphrates River. Luckily, they were both gifted with fertile soil thanks to the rivers. Also, both rivers flooded.
After searching in Setzuan, they become awfully disappointed because the wickedness of human behaviors greatly disgusted them. The irony here is the gods appearing to earth to search for one good human being. It is even more ironic that they don’t find one for a while. Wang, the water seller expects the gods to arrive, and when they did, he tries to prevent the gods to stay at his house. It is ironic because Wang knows about the arrival of gods, but he doesn’t offer the god a place to stay, instead, he pushes the responsibility to someone else.
This was a similarity between Egypt and Mesopotamia because during this time period people relied on water for many things such as drinking, bathing and most importantly for keeping their land fertile. They relied on this fertile land to grow their own food. Not everyone had easy access to the river. Therefore these civilizations build irrigational systems to carry out water for everyone to access it. Despite these similarities, Egypt had greater differences with Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamia and Egypt were different in terms of cities and states since Egypt had Babylon, Assyrian, and Nubian Kingdom of Ta-sati Persian rue in Egypt pharaoh. And Mesopotamia’s cities and states had Tikal, Sumer, Ur Nubian kingdom of Kush, roman conquest, and Nobel sudden. Mesopotamia was established by the Sumerians by the middle of the 4th millennium B.C. Egypt was founded around 3000 B.C.E when Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt combined into one whole kingdom. Egypt’s history is divided into three parts.
In each story immortality is lost because of human folly. The biblical version is harsher on humans though. In the beginning the humans already had immortality. They lose their immortality through an act of disobedience. Gilgamesh is only seeking immortality, he doesn’t start with anything.
Although Ra is the father of the gods, he seeks advice and guidance from the other gods. In the myth Ra treated everyone the same with exception to the human race. (Egyptian Myths, 2010) In the myth, Zeus is the ruler of the sky. Zeus had a very bad temper and all the other gods and goddesses feared him with the exception of his wife, Hera whom Zeus was afraid of. (Mr. Donn's Social Studies Site, n.d.) 4.
Neither the shaduf, or irrigation ditches would have been used to great effect if it were not for the basic’s of geometry. Since there was very little usable soil in Egypt, Egyptians had to make use out of every square inch of land. This is where geometry came into play. Grid like plots of land were formed which were littered with canals for optimal irrigation. Egyptians also had complex fractions, and where able to calculate area and volume which
In the world evil happens almost every day, from earthquakes to murder. People go through suffering and pain every day. A lot of people believe that there is a god but how could there be a god when there is so much evil in this world. If god was there he would be omniscient (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerful) and Omni-be¬nevolent (all good) , and morally perfect, which would mean that there should not be any evil, but the problem is that there is evil in this world. Does the problem of evil prove that god doesn’t exist?
Depending on locale, family, needs and preferences; the average Egyptian would choose the most suitable deities and build a household shrine for them. There were no formal cults or temples dedicated to these Gods. The state religion is what was practiced by the Pharaoh and the temple priests. The temples built to worship the state Gods were not open to the public. The Pharaoh was thought to have direct access to the Gods - and one of his primary duties was to act as the intermediary between them and the people of Egypt.