Mesopotamia And Egypt: Similarities And Differences

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The architecture and agriculture stood the test of time, but came from different civilizations. Mesopotamia and Egypt have innumerable similarities and differences that are incredibly valuable to historians and humans in general.
Mesopotamia and Egypt have numerous religious similarities and differences. Both cultures of polytheistic, but they have a different number of gods and how they worship them. Mesopotamians only worshiped the gods like gods, but Egyptians also worshiped pharaohs as gods. Both cultures had human-like gods. Anubis had a dogs head and a humans body in Egypt, and in Mesopotamia Anu was just a humanoid with abilities. Even though both cultures spent a majority of their time worshiping and doing various tasks for the

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