Going back thousands and thousands of years ago, two civilizations, Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, were very different according to the five key elements of culture. First, one key aspect that was very contrasting between these civilizations was the language. For example, Mesopotamia had distinct origins and a different style of writing. The earliest forms of writing in Mesopotamia was based on pictograms which “were used to communicate basic information about crops and taxes (Writing 1). As time passed, this writing soon transformed into a script called cuneiform. The people of Mesopotamia used their style of writing to keep a record of taxes, daily events and more. Furthermore, Ancient Egypt wrote using hieroglyphics which came from
