society are similar and at the same time they are very different. The most

important ways that their society's differ and are alike are in their government,

religion, social structure, scientific accomplishments, and their outlook on life.

The ways that the Egypt government and the Mesopotamia government

differ are how they are ruled. Egypt was one kingdom and it was divided in to

provinces or names, the kingdom was ruled by one person known as the

Pharaoh. The provinces were ruled by nemarchs. Mesopotamia had many

independent city-states with its own government and ruler. In Egypt there was

political unification achieved and in Mesopotamia political unification was rarely

achieved. The Egyptian government was more of a stronger centralized

government and the Sumerian government was not as strong and more

Egyptian and Sumerian religions have a lot of similarities. For one thing

they were both polytheistic. In Egypt people in each village worshipped a village

god in addition to other gods. Sumerians worshipped other

Egyptians produced a calendar with a 365-day year. They divided the year into

Cuneiform was simply symbols representing sounds and syllables. Sumerians

on the afterlife, but the Sumerians had a dark gloomy view of the afterlife

Sumerians had a dark gloomy one. The reasons for this are simple. The

were known for. Sumerians were the first people known to use the wheel. The

had enjoyed during their life. Because of that the Egyptians had something to

Valley allowed the people to enjoy life and see their gods as kindly forces. By,

probably contributed to the gloomy outlook on life. They believed that the gods

both have their ups and their downs.

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