Exploring The Four Ancient Civilizations- Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece an

Before the beginning of history, flock from across the add gradu all(prenominal)y developed numerous cultures, each unique in some ways while the same time having features in common. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Israel are all important to the history of the world because of religious, social, political and economic development. In the prime(prenominal) civilization, two Mesopotamia and Egypt re finessed on a hunter-gatherer economic system, during that time, every country in the world strived on it. Mesopotamia had rich soil for agriculture, but experiences floods. For the Mesopotamians, these floods would destroy major(ip) cities, but for the Egyptians it would keep the soil rich all year colossal without the damage that the Mesopotamians had experienced. With the rich soil foods were plentiful around the farm lands, which gave two countries the chance to establish largely dense areas, like what we now make love as a city-state. The Nile River also served as a defense for the Egyptians they enjoyed centuries of placidity and peace in which they used to develop peaceful development of their civilization. For the Mesopotamians, this wasnt the case. Mesopotamian society consisted of classes and social differences. The nobles, free clients of the nobility, commoners and slaves and Slave women all make up the different classes. The men dominated the women in Mesopotamia. The nobles consisted of the king, his family, the chief priests, and high castling officials. The king was a war leader elected by the citizens. He established an army and led it into battle. Kingship was hereditary. Commoners were free citizens. In ancient Egypt, both women and men could act on their own and were responsible for their own actions. In contrast, Mesopotami... ...males much higher. Also, the four ancient civilizations had to overcome the burden of uniting their people under one king. The need of kings to glorify themselves on statues is a volition of their ruling power, Egypt created many statues that displayed their gods, kings and queens. It was the Egyptians that influenced the Greek to create sculptures of their own ruling powers. other then sculptures, the Egyptians influenced the Greeks to write on surfaces of buildings, it first started with Hieroglyphs then the ancient Greeks amend on writing, they wrote on large sheets of papyrus which lessened time and made recording events easier. With so much in common the real differences lie beneath the surfaces of religion, power, equal rights and education. All four of the ancient civilizations principles can electrostatic be found in many modern countries.