Ancient Mesopotamia Problems

Ancient Mesopotamia is located in-between the Tigris river and the Euphrates river in Europe. With-in Mesopotamia is Babylonia which was located where the two rivers meet, with-in Babylonia is Akkad and Sumer. Akkad was located in the northern part of Babylonia while Sumer was located in the south in the channel of the river system. According to Robert A. Guisepi in his article Sumeria, Ancient Sumeria (Sumer), A History of Ancient Sumer Including its Contributions; Sumer was “broken by river channels teeming with fish and re-fertilized frequently by alluvial silt laid down by uncontrolled floods, Sumer had a splendid agricultural potential if the environmental problems could be solved…In the course of the several successive cultural phases that followed the …show more content…
According to the British Museum in their article Geography, “the ‘black land’ was the fertile land on the banks of the Nile used for growing crops because this was the only land with a rich layer of black silt deposited by the Nile every year after the flood. The ‘red land’ was barren desert that protect Egypt on two sides therefore separating Egypt from its neighboring countries and invading armies. This land also provided Egypt was a source of precious metals”. This essay will compare and contrast Ancient Egypt and Ancient Mesopotamia, in the terms of political structure, leadership, religion and cultural achievements. First is the Mesopotamia, who were the starting of civilization with the first few stages of history; such as the pre-history/early history known as the stone age were the first humans began as hunters and gathers. Hunting animals in order to feed their families and gathering food/supplies to get by. Or the Neolithic age where civilization started to evolve and domesticated animals, created tools and started to settle down in one place instead of moving around