Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies were quite similar, using the same formats of religion, language, and government to develop their societies and become more advanced. First, their format of religion. Mesopotamians worshipped over 3,000 gods, just about one for every realm. For these gods, they built shrines called ziggurats that only priests could enter. They also had to keep them appeased at all times using their harvest. If their harvest went bad, it was seen as a message that the gods were unhappy. Egypt was alike in these ways, such as how they had many different gods. Their gods came in eccentric form, sometimes with “an animal head paired with a human body” (Dorman, “Ancient Egypt”). Also like the Mesopotamians, they built
