Compare And Contrast Mesopotamia And Egyptian Civilization

Ancient Near East is a general term that holds geographical territory, religion beliefs and living conditions of early civilizations established within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East five thousand years ago: Mesopotamia and Egypt. These Ancient Eastern civilizations are considered the cradle of modern civilization; they were the origin of many civilization features as agriculture practice, government, empires and law codes, social stratification, urbanism, writing system the foundation for the fields of architecture, astronomy, engineer and mathematics. The Ancient Near East was a region of contrasts: from rivers to deserts, from settled civilizations to nomads and from equal rights to social injustice. Near …show more content…
This first high society of humans was located in what is known as "Mesopotamia"; the origin of the name comes from a Greek name meaning "land between the rivers." Mesopotamian society prevailed as a combined result of various religious, institutional, and historical factors. The reality of these factors occurred within the time indeed to establish the basis for this first civilization. Mesopotamia is often referred to as the cradle of civilizations because it was the first region where early urban centers grew. Civilizations developed through human ingenuity; they worked toward civilization by creating tools, setting a government, and communicating through spoken and written language. They developed mythic-religious beliefs, expressing sympathetic divinity. They also transformed human society by domesticating animals and the practice of agriculture. As people worked creatively upon these environments, villages grew into social complex cities where the invention of writing supported the expansion of knowledge. These developments encouraged settlement of villages in which distinct society