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Egypt and Mesapotamia - Coggle Diagram
Egypt and Mesapotamia
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Farming and Agriculture
Egypt
Egyptians agriculture depended on the Nile river, they had to wait until the floods of the river descended so then they coulld plant.
In farming, they kept animals such as cattle, goats, pigs, ducks, cows, and geese. Animals helped them with planting plants, by eating weeds...
Mesapotamia
They had a problem in growing crops there. The land is a dessert so they had to use pipes and tools to trasnport the water. Farming started at the same time as agriculture.There's also lots of Sun, so the plants grow faster. It started around 8000.B.C.
Comparisons
The difference is that Mesapotamia didn't have to gather food for a particular time in the year. They had to worry if they would have water always and if their tools are useful. As for, Egypt it's the reverse they just had to gather food for when the wasn't any flood.
Religion
Egypt
The religion was polytheistic.
Each of their gods had an control a natural force.
Mesapotamia
It was polytheistic they had several of Gods.
The three main ones where An, Enlil and Enki.
The Akkadians modified the religion. The Gods looked like a human.
Comparisons
They both had a polystheistic religion, for the Egyptians each God did something on purpose and trying to put peace. For Mesapotamia they had the power of their speciality.
Political social status
Egypt
The Egyptians were grouped in a hierarchial system, the pharaones were at the top and farmes and slaves at the bottom.
The pharaones where like Gods but beeing on the Earth.
This pyramid shows you how the society was distributed:
Mesapotamia
They were grouped in a hierarchial society, it was divided in three groupd upper class, middle class and lower class. In this groups they had different jobs.
·Upper class was the king and the priests
·Middle class were there scribes, merchants, commoners and artisans
·Lower class were the slaves, farmers
Comparisons
They had the same system the hierarchial. Mesapotamia was ruled by a king which ruled a city not a country. Egypt was ruled by pharaones.
Geography
Egypt
It is located in the Nile River
Mesapotamia
It's in the banks of Tigris and Euphrates river
today it's called Iraq and Kuwait
Comparisons
Mesapotamia is located in the fertile crescent between the two rivers. Egypt is located in Northen Africa on the Nile river
Architecture
Egypt
The pyramids were a kind of temple where they kept their tombs and placed all of their treasure of a person when they died
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Mesapotamia
The famous builidings in Mesapotamia is the Ziggurats it's a temple. They were built to honor the God of the city.
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Comparisons
They both had temples but for different meanings and different structures. You can see that this was a very big project for both and that it took a long time.
History
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Mesapotamia
Mesapotamia started in 5000 BCE and ended in 333 BCE. It ended because the Persian Empite got the power of Mesapotamia.
Comparisons
Mesapotamia is oldest, when Ancient Egytp started Mesapotamia was getting on it's end. Mesapotamia ended becuase, they lost power and Egypt because of a death, wich could also be a cause of power.
Languages
Mesapotamia
The principal languages were Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian. They used pictograms to write and communicate. It's called cuneiform
Egypt
They spoke Afro-asiatic. They're were four types of writing systems hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic and coptic . This is a hieroglyphs
Comparisons
They have different languages because, they are different countries. Their form of writing is similar, they both use pictures to write as characters but, they have different meanings from each others.
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