Comparing Egypt And China

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Both Egypt and China are civilization that have a long storied history. Both has a fair share of innovations that changed the world. It is worth to note that both contribute in ways that are in different fields but, there were moments like with the plow where China invented it and Egyptian improved it. But there is a major difference when talking about both civilizations. For starters, the Egyptian civilization was a far more ancient civilization then when China’s civilization started to arise. China first dynasty arose during Egypt’s middle kingdom.
The advancement of both civilizations are different. I would like to consider that the Egyptians provided the western world with knowledge on every aspect of math and as well as in the medical

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