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Compare And Contrast Egypt And Mesopotamia

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Communities in egypt and mesopotamia were very different in culture and in their rivers which i'm going to compare and contrast below. Also both are very similar in culture and rivers although one of them benefits more from the establishing their civilization around a river.

In mesopotamia and egypt the rivers were very important to the civilization but had many problems and benefits that went with it. I believe that egypt has the better river for there country. One difference between the two rivers is the predictability on when they flood. For egypt it says they were blessed with the more reliable river because “the nile overflowed its banks predictably every year on the parched ground of autumn after august 15.” whereas for the euphrates river in mesopotamia …show more content…

When the euphrates river flooded it flooded high over the floodplain ending up very destructive. “ its waters could be used to breakout canals and also kill crops and caused lots of damage.” In egypt they didn't have the same problem because they're waters overflowed at different time than the euphrates so were able to prepare. Although both egypt and mesopotamia benefited in different ways. For egypt they were “left with rich sediment and withdrawing by early october leaving little salt or marsh just in time for the sowing of winter crops”. So for egypt they benefited with fresh sediment for new crops to grow. For mesopotamia they benefited from a different way. “its flooding sometimes was needed to drain of water from irrigation when river was low but could also be very destructive when banks reinforced it was aqueductaly blocked. Also the nile river is a lot easier to navigate than the euphrates river.” So

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