Differences And Similarities Between Mesopotamia And Ancient Egypt

Egypt had a completely different culture than what Mesopotamia had. When Abraham went to visit Egypt in Genesis 12, he came from a sophisticated environment of Ur to Egypt’s royal housing. I knew a little bit of what Egypt was like by reading the stories of when the Israelites were captured and were slaves. Egypt was a place where it never rained and their soil had to be irrigated. It wasn’t surrounded by mountains or hills, but by a great river called the Nile. Egypt had a central government that showed some moderate control over the whole Nile Valley. Work and lifestyle were different when living in Egypt. They had a different style of governing the land and they didn’t have kings, but Pharaohs. Their empire was formed by many military campaigns …show more content…
The Nile river was a huge part of what nourished their land and gave them transportation. Egypt was isolated, but the people loved it because it was peaceful to them. Because their home was secure and they had provisions that the sun and the Nile gave, the Egyptians a sense of confidence. Their religion came out of the land and religion was another factor to the culture. The Egyptians personalized the forces of nature and they would think of themselves as living in relation to them. The main gods of the Egyptians were the Nile, the sun, the moon, the earth, etc. During the time of Moses, God sent plagues that attacked a specific god. God did this to show an upper hand on many gods that influenced Egypt. “Suddenly the whole river turned to blood! The fish in the river died, and the water became so foul that the Egyptians couldn’t drink it. There was blood everywhere throughout the land of Egypt” (Exodus 7:20-21). Reiterating what I said earlier, the Nile was a source of life to the Egyptians. So, when God did this to the river blood was an attack to the existence of them and their …show more content…
Boys can get married at any age if they are sexually mature and has established a career. Girls were usually married in between the ages of twelve and fourteen. During the period of when the Israelites lived in Egypt, many intermarriages happened between the Egyptians and Israelites. God did not want to have His people intermarrying with the Egyptians because then they would get influenced by the Egyptian culture and religion. Another type of marriage that was common in Egypt was marrying other family members. They married people with the same social stratum. “Speak to the people of Israel, and say to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived… You shall not walk in their statutes” (Leviticus 18: 1-3). Because of the culture of Egypt and the influence they had on the Israelites, God had Moses tell them to adapt the culture they just ran