Compare And Contrast Rome And Egypt

Both the ancient civilizations of Rome and Egypt have different characteristic that make their countries the most powerful of their time. Egypt although in a desert used the Nile River to grow bigger and Rome used the warm Mediterranean weather and the Italian peninsula to grow bigger too. These characteristics can be in how they lived their life or how they flourished in their different landscape. I learned that both Egypt and Rome worked with each other even after the Romans took control of Egypt. Their interactions were both helpful and negative. Rome respected Egypt’s form of government even after they took over, and even had roman governmental figures in Egypt’s. Egypt before it was took over traded heavily with the Roman Empire with things like grain. Both the Romans and Egyptians have different characteristics that made them big and made them simply a civilization.

There are both similarities and differences when dealing with the …show more content…
There are also other similarities when dealing with both of these civilizations like their labor which was mostly salves and their own workers. Egypt used a lot of slaves to do their daily duties, work, and to build the pyramids. In Rome they used slaves mostly form the countries that did take over. Like in any other countries slaves or servants were mostly used to control them and use them when they needed to. Although there were slaves there was other classes of labor, like agriculture, simple labors who made things and the political spectrum people. This is also the case in both Egypt and Rome were they had different levels of classes were people worked in different labor fields. These people were not only farmers or laborers, they also made things, taught things, and almost every other type of labor/work a civilizations would need. Both Egypt and roman have the ideal and all of the characteristics that make them