How Did Mesopotamia Have A Centralized Government

The similarities between Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as far as geography is both civilizations depended on a drainage system for their existence. Most of their surrounding regions were dry and improper for their large scale agriculture. As far as differences, Ancient Egyptians used seasonal flooding of the Nile river for agriculture. Due to the region's dry and hot climate. The Egyptians produced way more food than was needed

During the Mesopotamia era (4,000 -2,350 B.C.E.), cities were built to help support the population, the inventions of everyday chores and issues (i.e. wheels, canals, pottery), and the rise of monarchy became the hierarchy and the most widespread form of government. Society was under a patriarchy – which the male population dominated political, social, and economic life.

Throughout the years up until 600 BCE, Mesopotamia and China were two of the many early ruling civilizations of the neolithic times. Mesopotamia and China were similar in spite of their economic structures and religious beliefs. When it came to their intellectual and artistic differences, they could not compare. Despite the intellectual and artistic differences between Mesopotamia and China, their economic structures and religious beliefs were overall similar.

While both Egypt and Mesopotamia were both ancient desert societies, their differences were great, and expanded far past their location on a map. Agriculture, relationships with outsiders, and especially their religious customs, were all deeply affected by the land that these civilizations were founded

Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient China shared the same type of government. Although Ancient Mesopotamia began ruling its lands with priest kings eventually came to rule just as Ancient China, both civilization believed kings had divine approval. Social classes among both civilization followed the upper class, middle class, lower class structure. Upper class among the two consisted of the higher gods, kings, priest etc. Middle class consisted of peasant farmers, merchants, fisherman etc. Lower class consisted of slaves, lower gods and many more. Mesopotamia followed "Hammurabi's code of Law" and China followed "Confucius Golden rule"

The Egyptian Middle Kingdom and Babylonia had many similarities related in geography. Despite this they also had numerous distinct differences. Fundamental similarities manifested as care for the people by the rulers which had recently developed in both societies. As the rulers were no longer concerned with only themselves, but the citizens as well. Both societies had military protection although Babylon organized and conquered the Fertile Crescent and later Egypt. Politically, both cultures respected the other as equals and engaged in trade. The Middle Kingdom acknowledged that they were no longer entirely in control of all resources. Socially writing was excellent between the two kingdoms. Under Hammurabi the Babylonians had a set of laws, and the Egyptians excelled at writing.

Egypt and Maya were two of the greatest and most advanced civilizations that we have discovered. They flourished at different times and were located thousands of miles away from each other but had many things in common, as well as many differences. Egypt was at its peak before Maya at around 3,200 B.C. Maya reached its peak at around 250 A.D. Egypt was located along the Nile River and delta in Northern Africa. The Mayan Empire was located in present-day Mexico and Central America. Although these cultures seem different, they also had many similarities. Some major differences and similarities are in their environments, religions, and architecture.

The economic ways of both Mesopotamia and Egypt were similar in value and influence. These civilizations thrived on trade both within itself and with other civilizations. These cities like Sumer and Giza became important to the economic structures of the civilizations. The cities were the economic centers. They housed scribes who recorded taxes and transactions and architects who designed projects that became public works such as ziggurats and tombs. The cities became a place for artisan goods like metallurgy and sculptors. Most importantly, they were trade hubs. Trade allowed both Egypt and Mesopotamia to receive items that lacked such as cattle and trade away what they had an abundance of. Egypt traded things like papyrus for ebony and ivory

Egypt, Mesopotamia, Shang/Zhou dynasties/China, and the Indus Valley are all different ancient river valley civilizations. All have different aspects of civilizations. Some aspects of civilization include technology, writing/language, specialized jobs, government, etc. These decisions were made based on the climate and biome the civilization was located in. These things needed to be taken into account because certain aspects of civilization were not suitable for every civilization. A written language was key to creating a thriving civilization, helping many tasks become easier. Writing was composed of many things, but the most important include a government building, a library, and a written language.

Northern Mesopotamia was in control of the Assyrians, while the south was in the hands of the Babylonians. Shamsi-Abad was the leader of the Assyrians. Shamsi-Abad was the reason the Assayrians became wealthy, and were able to gain control over the north of Mesopotamia. When Shamsi died during 1781 BC the empire began to weaken, and eventually fell into the control of the Babylonian Empire. Their cities were extremely powerful, and had tall walls to combat them during fights, in addition to multiple canals, and aqueducts for water, and lavish palaces for their kings. (Ken,2015).

In the Ancient world, Life began around rivers. Throughout this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two of the prominent ancient civilizations, the Egyptians and the Sumerians. They had many cultural and governmental differences between them. Below are some examples.

Mesopotamia and Egypt civilization are two of the oldest civilization in the world. Comparing those two civilizations, there are many similarities and differences from each aspect of their culture. Firstly, both of them spread their civilization along the river, Mesopotamian civilizations expanded from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and Egypt spread from the Nile River. Secondly, both of two regions had their own writing script, Mesopotamian developed cuneiform script and Egypt developed hieroglyphic script. Furthermore, the nomadic people in those two regions caused lots of rebellions.

The river civilizations of Egypt had many ranks in their social classes. The most powerful classes of them were the pharaoh's and government leaders, or the Grand Vizier, nomarchs, and priests. Then came the soldiers and scribes. Below these classes were the merchants and artisans. The lowest of them all are the farmers and slaves. The higher up you get in the classes, the fewer people there will be. For example, there is almost always one pharaoh, but there are many, many slaves in Egypt. You also get more and more power as you went up the classes. In Egypt, men had the most power, and they were also the head of families.

Some of the major differences can be seen in the ideas of origin and the meaning of life. In today’s society, as a whole, most do not believe that the world was created because various gods were fighting or because a monster of chaos was destroyed. In a modern, Christian worldview, we believe God created us and the earth and that He genuinely cares for us. For us, the meaning of life is similar in the idea that happiness is a goal; however, we find meaning in what we do and how we impact others. The Mesopotamians on the other hand never gave much evidence to support the idea that they were invested in the people around them and making their lives better along with their own. Learning about ancient worldviews has significance in the fact that it allows us to better understand literature from that period as well as allowing us to explore our own

The ancient Egyptians were very smart. They invented certain things to make their life more comfortable and easy. They would create many things to make the most comfortable life as possible. So many things ranging from flat topped houses to wigs. This showed their superiority compared to other civilizations. The only downside is the creations of certain comfort items were only available to those in royalty. That created such a distinguished social class. I also believe that the social classes of Ancient Egypt were very enforced and created such good distinction for those to know their jobs and get their jobs done. When people do their jobs they create time. Time is the most important factor in these civilizations because if time is created then people will innovate and create so much more. This is what made Egypt such a great civilization. They had a lot of time on their hands to create a lot of great inventions and innovations. They were consistent in their work for the greater. While those of Mesopotamia and other civilizations of the time had written language, Ancient Egyptian writing was very extensive and required much focus and could describe things in very good detail. They originally created written language for the better and quickly evolved the language.