Egypt Vs Mesopotamia Essay

The argument of the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Both have many important similarities and differences. However, the difference between the two civilization serve as a clear evidence to the existence of multiple routes to civilize life. Furthermore, the argument will show how the ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt were different in form of social classes, law codes, geography, however they both believe in more than one god . The law code for the Mesopotamian is Hammurabi and Egypt is Pharaoh’s they are totally different.
First the way both different to social class is that Mesopotamia is contain the upper classes as the king, priest, and government official. In the Egypt was based on the pharaoh, priest& nobles, and trader artisan. Priests in ancient Mesopotamia were very powerful and important. They told people how to behave to keep the gods happy. Priests in Sumer (and in Babylon) were also the local doctors when people get sick, they sent for priest. The priests shaved their heads so that everyone knew they were priests. Both men and women wore jewelry. Men wore long hair and long beards and wore a skirt type garment. Women wore long dresses with one shoulder bare. In the colder months they all wore cloaks made from wool to keep warm.
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The Code of Hammurabi was written down on clay tablets and etched into stone. It is one of the oldest recorded codes of laws in the world. One of the best surviving examples of the code is written on the "diorite stele. The diorite stele is a large stone shaped like a giant finger. It is about seven feet tall and two feet wide. It contains around 4000 lines of text describing 282 different laws. At the top, or "fingertip", of the stele is a carved picture of King Hammurabi being given the laws from the Babylonian sun god