Kyle Fuller
Arakawa
World Civilization 110-29
21 September 2006
Compare and Contrast: Mesopotamia and Egypt
In the time of the agricultural age, two civilizations arose out of the plenteous food and raging waters. These two early civilizations were Mesopotamia and Egypt. Although many similarities can be drawn between the two, they each proved to be very different from each other in social, political, and religious systems as well as their stability and defeat.
One factor they did have in common was the cause of each civilization existence, Irrigated agriculture. Irrigated agriculture was the bridge between a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and an agricultural lifestyle. These two early civilizations had an abundant supply of the number one resource needed for irrigated agriculture, water. "In ancient Mesopotamia, the dual drainage of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers made the first urban civilization possibleĀ
In Egypt, the Nile was the life-giving source of everything the people......
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