Egypt vs. mesopotamia
Although Mesopotamia and Egypt are similar in many senses, they also have many distnctive differences. They both have many different ways of expressing themselves in art form, such as Cuneiform (Mesopotamia) and Hieroglyphics (Egypt). While Mesopotamia's people followed The Code of Hammurabi as their guide to the law, ancient Egypt used their famous Pharoah/Kingship method to govern their land. Many famous books that are still studied and analyzed come from these two countries such as Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia) and The Book of the Dead (Egypt). These topics will be further analyzed below. Mesopotamia was a very well-developed civilization. They verbalize themselves artistically with what is called Cuneiform writing. The government officials declared that a way of transcribing records had to be made, and so they created a simple pictographic writing (Cuneiform). This form of art is much like Hieroglyphics, which is what probably inspired Egypt to form that kind of writing. The main structure of government the Mesopotamians followed was The Code of Hammurabi. As a king, Hammurabi created numerous changes that ameliora
Egyptian writing,called hieroglyphics, is similar to Mesopotamian writing. The Egyptians called their form of art/writing "the words of God". The priests were the main people who wrote with hieroglyphics to lavishly decorate the walls of temples and palaces. This vaguely relates to the Mesopotamian's form of writing, cuneiform, because of the designs and symbols used to represent ideas. As for the form of government, Egypt is a civilization very different from Mesopotamia. Ancient Egyptian Government was dominated by a single man, the Pharaoh. The people believed that the king was more than a man. He was a god. This gave him absolute control over the affairs of the Empire and its people. This differs greatly from Mesopotamia because most Egyptian citizens never got to meet their leader, while Mesopotamia had a more personal relationship with their rulers. The Egyptian religion also played a role in their government, which brings me to my literature topic. The Egyptians were very fascinated by death, and thusly created The Book of the Dead. This book was a "collection of funerary chapters" (http://members.aol.com/egyptart/book.html) that
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