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Title: Compare/Contrast Ancient Civilizations


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Compare/Contrast Ancient
Civilizations
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Climate/Geography
  • Egypt
  • River--Nile River
  • Longest in the World
  • Hot
  • Desert
  • Small amount rain
  • Mesopotamia
  • Plains/Plateaus
  • Rivers
  • Tigris Euphrates
  • ( Rich Farmland)
  • Desert
  • Hot
  • Small amount rain

3
Culture
  • Egypt
  • Farming Community
  • Extensive Tomb Paintings
  • Social Class System
  • Pharaohs
  • Mesopotamia
  • Small City States
  • Market Place
  • Social Class System

4
Religious Beliefs
  • Egypt
  • Polytheistic( Many Gods )
  • Pharaoh- God and King
  • Mummification
  • Elaborate Tombs
  • Mesopotamia
  • Polytheistic (Many Gods)
  • Ruled by priest -kings
  • Burial under homes

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5
Writing
  • Egypt
  • Hieroglyphics
  • Picture Writings
  • 800 signs
  • Cut into rock or stone-on papyrus paper
  • Mesopotamia
  • Cuneiform
  • Wedge-shape marks on clay tablets

6

Economy
  • Egypt
  • Based on Farming
  • Flooding of the Nile
  • Expanded Trade
  • Mesopotamia
  • Based on Farming
  • Wheat
  • Barley
  • Used plow first time

7

Government
  • Egypt
  • Pharaoh great house
  • Theocracy - religious leader and king
  • Scribes recorded government business
  • Mesopotamia
  • Theocracy - religious leader and king
  • Absolute power
  • Hammurabi's code

8

Achievements
  • Egypt
  • Great pyramid of Khufu
  • Engineering and building skills
  • Papyrus paper
  • Rosetta stone decoded hieroglyphics
  • Cultural borrowing technologies including horse
    drawn chariots
  • Embalming
  • Mesopotamia
  • 12 month calendar based on phases of the moon
  • Code of Laws Hammurabis Code
  • Babylonians math system based on 60
  • Phoenicians Alphabet Hebrew, Greek and Latin
    alphabets of today

9
Fun Facts
  • Egypt
  • Cairo capital on Nile
  • Pyramids
  • Sphinx
  • Rosetta Stone translated Hieroglyphics
  • Mesopotamia
  • First discovered civilization
  • First to develop a calendar
  • Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey
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