Compare And Contrast Mesopotamia And Egypt

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Try to define civilization. It’s hard, right? We actually don’t quite have a complete definition ourselves, but we have discovered several factors that are basically necessary for a civilization to come alive and stay alive. Now obviously these factors have stayed the same ever since even ancient Mesopotamia and there are some other similar characteristics but there are much more things that make us different from them. Our civilization now is more different than similar from the ones in Mesopotamia and Egypt because of the population, the secularity, and the peace.
First and foremost there is the outstanding population difference. For civilizations there has always needed to be a condensed large population, larger at least than hunter-gatherer communities but now it …show more content…

In our society it would be considered very bizarre for someone like a bishop to govern our country. However, a long time ago, it was almost the exact opposite. The king or pharaoh or whoever had the most power was practically always someone that either god appointed or, in the case of Sumerian cities, they were priests who supervised the irrigation system because the rivers were recognized as gods, which meant they needed someone who could communicate with the gods to tap into them. This lead to everyone offering things to the priest so he would continue to help them. Another example, Hammurabi was ruler because Marduk, the chief god of Babylon, said he would be as well as he gave him the set of laws to govern Babylon with. Now we have separated the religious leaders from the political leaders in hopes to not offend anyone who believes in another religion. Although this is not true everywhere, it is true for the most civilized places like the USA and UK which is what we should be comparing because Mesopotamia and Egypt were the most civilized places back then. We can see how political powers have changed since

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