Essay On River Valley Civilization

In the past, during the Old Stone Age, everyone was mostly nomadic, meaning they migrated moving from place to place to follow game animals and ripening fruit for survival. Also, during this time early religious beliefs were called animism and that is the belief that the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams. Yet, multiple years later there was a Neolithic agriculture revolution, people begin to grow their own crops, which gave them a reason to settle in farming villages so they could grow their food instead of catch it. Then 6000 years later, in the year 3000 B.C., it was the beginning of a change in life because civilizations began to emerge, more pacifically, river valley civilizations. River valley civilizations are complex, highly organized social order that was established along a river valley. There were four cities that rose self-reliantly: the …show more content…
Both civilizations were polytheistic, meaning they believed in multiple Gods that controlled all aspects of life and they also believed in afterlife. Nonetheless they had some beliefs that were different mostly surrounding the idea of afterlife. The Egyptians believed in mummification, or the preservation of the dead because they would take out all of the organs and fill the body with things they though it would need in the afterlife, such as spices. Mummification is not something that Mesopotamians were accustomed to. The Mesopotamians felt that their duty was to keep the supreme beings happy so they can keep their city-state safe because each city-state had its own god to worship to. Unlike the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians believed the underworld to be an inexorable place but the Egyptians saw it as a happy field of food. This contrast is because of the differences in geography and the effects of the floods—the Nile River flood were more advantageous while the Mesopotamia floods were