Eygpt
-Akhet- The flooding season
Peret- The growing season
Shemu-The Harvesting Season
The seasons followed to harvest food and provide, dependent on the Nile River.
-Pharaoh, vizier, nobles and priests, scribes and soldiers, craftsmen, slaves and farmers was the social structure in Egypt
-Mummification was a big part of Egyptian society, the process of mumification included pulling out the brain and internal organs and placing them in canopic jars. With salt mixture to dry the body out and finally stuffing linens and sand back in the bodyt o gice it a more human shape.
Mesopotamia
-Social structure of Mesopotamia started with the kings, priests, scribes, merchants and artisians, commoners and slaves
-Located between Tigris and Euphrates River
-Mesopotamia was where the Epic of Gilgamesh originated from (talks about ruler who eventually goes throguh trials but learns that immortality is not for mortals
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China
-China exportes silks and Daoism was founded during Zhou dynasty
-A way to provide aid the population, was through human waste fertilization, becasue they did not have as many farm animals in which there waste is ideal. So instead, they used human
waste to fertilize there crops
-Social structure of China consisted of the Emperor at the top and following that there is gov.t officials and warriors, farmers and peasants, craftsmen, and lastly there is the merchants and traders.
Both Egyot and Mesopotamia were polytheistic and had mulitple gods.
Both Eygpt and --China and Eygpt was isolated which meant better protection against invadors
Both China and Mesopotamia orginated near rivers, which allowed for fertility of their land. There advancements are still used in modern society.
All three of these civilization shared clear cut social structures. - They all had there own form of religions, Mesoptamians prayed for good harvest, and China not only had Daiosim but asked guidance form ancestors and eygot worshipped gods of the dead. - Each civilization had a form of writing, Mesopotamians had cunieforn and China had its own script, while Eygpt had hierolglypics, but even though they had different writing ways, they still had a writing system.
- All of these three civilization started near a river.
What do Civilizations Entail?
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