Ap World History Compare And Contrast Essay

In all of the societies we have discussed thus far there seem to be a lot of similarities to their development which shows that even the societies that develop continents away aren’t really so different. The first similarity I see in most civilizations is where they choose to build their settlements. Most ancient civilizations with the exception of the Persians built their settlements around waterways or more specifically rivers. The fertile lowlands around these rivers gave settlers access to farmable land and other basic needs for a growing society which made them prime locations for settlements. For example the ancient Egyptians had the Nile while the Mesopotamians had the Tigris and Euphrates, the Chinese also settled around the yellow river and the Indians around the Indus. This shows the basic human need for water and the advantages that it gave to all developing civilizations and empires that had access to it. …show more content…
The trading relationship between the ancient Egyptians and Nubians are the best example of this. According to Traditions Encounters a Brief Global History the Third Edition (Jerry H. Bently, Herbert F. Ziegler, Heather E. Streets-Salter) “In both Egypt and Nubia, specialized labor and efficient means of transportation encouraged the development of long-distance trade” the development of trade also goes hand in hand with other developments that all nations needed to evolve. The first being currency which every civilization we have discussed so far had their own form of. The second being a byproduct of the first which is writing, Cuneiform being the first form of writing invented by the Sumerians was used to keep track of commercial transactions and tax