Compare And Contrast Mesopotamia And Shang Civilization

In the early Mesopotamian and Shang civilizations, they had a very similar evolution to become the influential cultures and classical societies. These two civilizations had problems with river flooding, governmental systems, and environmental understanding. Mesopotamia had introduced slavery to the early world and the Shang suffered from the changing over of their thrones. Shang’s form of writing system was Calligraphy, while Mesopotamian was Cuneiform. In the early Mesopotamian and Shang civilizations, they had a very similar evolution to become the influential cultures and classical societies. These two civilizations had problems with river flooding, governmental systems, and environmental understanding. Mesopotamia had introduced slavery to the early world and the Shang suffered from the changing over of their thrones. Shang’s form of writing system was Calligraphy, while Mesopotamian was Cuneiform.

About 10,000 years ago, civilizations

arose in different places around the world. Archaeologists believe early humans first appeared in Africa. These humans traveled across the world and found places to live in. As they traveled, many of them were later found in Egypt, China, and India. They were separated in societies, also called as civilizations. For this essay, I will focus on the Mesopotamian and Shang civilizations. These two civilizations had problems with river flooding, governmental systems, and environmental understanding.
In Egypt, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers caused the Mesopotamians problem with flooding. So, they came up with irrigation system. They built irrigations to control the rivers from flooding. On the other hand, Shang also had problems with the Yellow river. Though, they might’ve problems with flooding, the rivers were still one of their sources for food. Most people in the early civilizations were called hunter-gatherers because they hunted and gathered food supply. They also had to move into different places to look for shelter, due to unstable lifestyle.
In the beginning, these civilizations had completely different government systems.

Mesopotamians were ruled by a priest, while the Shang were ruled by an emperor. Later, there was a change in Mesopotamians’ system, Kings ruled the people because they believed that the Kings had divine approval. There were four empires in the Ancient Mesopotamian, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans. While in Shang, there were four dynasties, Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han.

These two early civilizations had similarities, but also had differences. They were known for their uniqueness from one another. For example, Mesopotamia is known as “cradle of civilization.” All because of the writing that was invented by the Mesopotamians and the city that arose as we recognize entity today. On the other hand, the Shang in China is known as the first and oldest dynasty in Ancient China. Both civilizations suffered from river flooding. Mesopotamia had introduced slavery to the early world and the Shang suffered from the changing over of their

thrones.