More than 5,000 years ago, approximately 3,500 B.C.E, emerged one of the earliest urban societies, the Sumerians. Mesopotamia was located in the Middle east, in modern day Iraq, along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates river. Around a thousand years later arose another river civilization known as the egyptians, located in Egypt in northeast africa. Both of these civilizations share common aspects when it came to their dependency on the rivers, belief in many gods, and their control over their
In the beginning there were four different ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia, The Nile River Valley, Indus River Valley, and Shang and Zhou China. All four civilizations were completely different in terms of the government and community. I have decided to compare and contrast the political and social structures of The Nile River Valley and Mesopotamia. They are among the first ancient civilizations to be created. The Nile River Valley is a civilization that has been created along the Nile River