Ancient Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia

Are king’s gods or mortal? Well people thought that they were gods, but religion was what made them gods. Religion made people think that kings have met the gods. People thought that kings were gods ever since 5000-3500 BC, when the first city-state was brought to life. When people worshipped the king, kings used the religious power they have, kings used religion as a political power.

But all empires kings used religion for political power, strengthening military power. But all empires campaigns need resources, that is where the farmers come in. Farmers or peasants grow food and build temples, the temples are used to worship gods, and kings and the crops they grow to support the government and the farmer’s family also their people,
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Trading helped people receive other resources like leopard skin, gold, and linen, ETC. trading also helped people

get resources they didn’t have on their land. But if they want to trade they have to go by river, so they used the Nile. The Nile was the center of life in Egypt, they used it for trading and transporting stuff upriver or down river. The Nile was also how they grew crops, got freshwater for drinking and bathing. There were also seasons like flood season, when the nile floods and turns the soil, ready for planting there is also a season for planting and growing, the third season is harvest season, well… all they do is harvest their crops.

Ever since the first city-state was built Egyptians worshipped the Nile. The Nile is the world’s largest river and was a huge privilege for the Egyptians because the land they live in was all desert, but now, if it wasn’t for the Nile there would never be anyone or anything living in the desert. Egyptians even worshipped the Nile, they even created a hymn, thinking the Nile was a gift sent down by the gods to their disposal.

Everything about the Egyptians were complex from religion to technology, and their everyday lives. Egyptians had a complex lifestyle and structure but they are a really surprising group of people. Living in the Egyptian time was really hard because they had to survive in a harsh desert land. But hey still managed to work it out. They still managed to survive using complex resources. But I hope this still explaines what their daily lifestyle

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