Both civilization of Southwest Asia and Egypt, had common perspectives of social structure, geography, environmental conditions, and ideas of women and families, yet with these similarities they still had many differences. Both civilizations each had a god-king, that was a leader to the people and were chosen and granted by God a divine and ultimate power. Furthermore, each civilization had a settlement were geographically near rivers, because of its abundance of water and food. Therefore, each civilization had analogous environmental conditions of flooding from the near river; Egyptians saw this as protection and isolation from the flooding. These kings took on absolute power over their people, which affected; the economics, social structure,
