... irrigation agriculture gradually increased the food supply. The basic crops were barley and wheat; the milk animals were goats and cows; sheep supplied the wool that was the chief textile fabric of Mesopotamia. The most common vegetables were beans, peas, garlic, leeks, onions, radishes, lettuce, and cucumbers; the fruits included melons, dates, pomegranates, figs, and apples. Compared to Mesopotamia, Egypt's annual flooding ... was predictable and lived in the eternal, stable order of the universe, they cared the future. 11. Culture: Mesopotamia's Hanging gardens located on the banks o...

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... purposes, first it would provide Djoser's ka, his spirit or life force, with habitation and sustenance in the afterlife. Second, the design of the building had immovable doors and labyrinthine passageways that would try and keep robbers from getting in, which became a bigger problem as pharaonic ... for the royal family alone. By the time of the Middle Kingdom it became more possible for Egyptians to ensure that their bodies would participate in these rituals. Binding together this endless cycle was Maat, the serene order of the universe with which the individual must remain in harmony ....

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