The differences between Egypt and Mesopotamia

The differences and similarities between Egypt and Mesopotamia

Why we would want to live in Egypt?

Yanni and Christian thoughts.

I would want to live in Egypt because there is a lot of space in the cities and because they have big temples and pyramids. Also they have much more power than Mesopotamia. I think that because Egypt has pharaohs and more government laws and the laws are more violet. Like in one of the laws in Mesopotamia if a women talks back to a man she gets her face crushed with a brick. Also the empire grew more farther and got all the way up to southwest Asia. Those are our thoughts on why we should live in Egypt.

Complex Technologies

Government and law codes

Differences

Egypt

Differences

• Egypt rulers were successful military leaders

• In Egypt pharaoh + divine, hereditary, needed support from priests

Egypt

Mesopotamia

• Men and women could share land

Mesopotamia

• The egyptians had a water clock and a sundial

• The Mesopotamia's had the first seeder plow and the first wheel at 3500 BCE

• Mesopotamia had issued written law codes

• Mesopotamia administered justice

• They also had big stone pyramids

• If a women talked back to a man she would get her face crushed with a brick

• They also had the first to harness the wind as a energy source by using a sail

Similarities

Cities

Differences

• They both had kings

Egypt

Mesopotamia

• Population spread more evenly

• More villages based

• Sumer, Akkad

• 8O% urban

• The empire grew up too far upriver and into southwest Asia

• They both had command labor

• Center of manufacturing

• Egypt and Mesopotamia both had big and small monuments

• Located in Tigris/Euphrates river valley

Similarities

• They both had villages

• Both had temples in there cities

• Egypt and Mesopotamia had a decent size cities

• They also both had a calender

By: Yanni Stavropoulos and Christian Pritt

Mesopotamia and Egypt differences and similarities

Writing and Record Keeping

Highly Organized Religion

Differences

Egypt

Mesopotamia

Egypt

• 3600 BCE writing appears, clay tablets

• Priests government early city-states

• Only high ranks in society could write

• Recorded info.

• In Egypt after- life depended on divine judgment

• Later- King controls, hereditary position controlled of military

• Earliest writing = pictographs

• Represented forces of nature

• Wrote about royalty and religion

• After-life was shadowy world of sadness

• There religion was strongly influenced by tradition, which caused them to resisted to change

similarities

Similarities

• They both had recorded info.

• They both had many gods

• They both wrote down commerce and government

• They had Priestesses

Social Classes

Differences

Specialized Jobs

Egypt

Mesopotamia

Differences

• This was the ranking from high to low

• This was the social classes from highest to lowest ranking

Mesopotamia

Egypt

• In Ancient Egypt they had pharaohs

• In Mesopotamia they had prophet which

• They also had tomb builders which build tombstones for the dead

• In Mesopotamia they had weavers which made clothes and sold them to the public

Similarities

• They also had prophets which was a inspired teacher

• they had vizer which is the second my powerful official

• They both had slaves and farmers and store owners at the bottom

Similarities

• They both had teachers and scribes

• They had more upper class at the top at the ranking chart like kings and queens

• They also had queens and priests

• Both of them had farmers,labors and artists