Comparing Two Ancient Civilisations: Ancient Egypt vs. Mesopotamia
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- In this video, we are comparing Ancient Egypt vs. Mesopotamia in all sorts of different aspects. We will be looking at the similarities and differences between the geography of the two regions, the phenomena of the flooding Nile vs. the flooding Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and how the geography and cultures within the regions worked differently in expansion and conquest. We look at the single unified culture of the Ancient Egyptians, their art, architecture and religious beliefs in comparison to the ever-changing political and cultural climate of Mesopotamia, a region rife with conquests and new dominant empires. This video will also explore the social structure of the numerous Mesopotamian cultures vs. the strict social hierarchy of Ancient Egypt, and the similarities between the pantheon of gods, and the differences in their beliefs for the afterlife.
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0:00 Introduction
0:48 Geography of Egypt and Mesopotamia
1:32 The Flooding Rivers
2:44 Kingdom, Empire and Expansion
4:25 Culture, Art and Architecture
7:29 The Social Structure
10:00 Religious Beliefs
13:24 Outro
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Did any of the similarities between the two civilisations surprise you? Why do you think these two completely different geographical regions had so many similarities? Let us know what you think!
This is very interesting information, what made the Mesopotamia (Uruk) civilizations superior is that they were secular and much more materialized than the Egyptians. That led a tremendous expansion in art, literature, military and cultural innovations and our civilization nowadays is more or less a continuity of those civilizations
What made the Egyptian civilization more familiar to us and more impressive in taking us toward the past is the same reason that made it less productive and less contributory in its actual time which was their belief in after life, when they preserved everything, even their kings their belief what brought their civilization to us
Two important things to mention is that there are some documentations that show Egyptian civilization was founded by Sumerian and Akkadian people, another thing is that there is no evidence that Khufu had built the biggest pyramid
I'm sure their was some trading back and fourth and like to day people with skills would move where the business was good. Plus the known would was very small then.
Nice video.
Tus presentaciones acompana con algunos power po8nt and animations otherwise become boting the presentation
The content is good but tou meed to do more attractive, and to talk slowly you are just reading this is why it seems very fast when you talk
Thanks for the information
Greetings from Iraq Mesopotamia🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶
Keep up the awesome work, Kelly!
I hope you shed light into briefly explaining Battles between those two ancient civilizations.
I finally ordered the Lamassu t shirt. I was a member of the old format, the ancient encyclopedia for many years and it was the one website that I frequently visited.
Anyway, another excellent video. Thought provoking, interesting, and very well narrated. Very clear. Thanks Kelly and your entire team.
Can I ask you a question?
Where are you from? I just have a curious because I live near the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq 😁
@@mohammedkh4321 I'm Assyrian from Yonkers, NY. My parents immigrated to New York from Tehran, Iran. I speak Assyrian fluently although I cannot read or write it. Nice to meet you!
@@babylonkid I hope that you can someday visit ancient Babylon city while you love it and by the way, I have Assyrian friends here in Iraq. Nice to meet you too 😊❤️
@@mohammedkh4321 Thank you! Yes, one day I will visit.
In addition to your amazing lovely smile , I adored your way of explanation and showing differences between both civilizations . greetings from Baghdad .
Writing an essay right now, this is so helpful!
Interesting and cool video, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dear Kelly You are saving my life. I have returned to school after 40 years and am really struggling until I found your videos. I would like the transcript of one or two but when I press the Transcript Button nothing happens . I would be happy to pay for them but did not see them offered in the store. Could you please tell me if they are available. I have been typing along with your lecture, you are so good. Thank you so much for what you do.
Hi! We're so glad to hear that you're finding our videos helpful. We're still going through our older videos and adding English subtitles, which is why you won't be able to see a transcript option for every video. Apologies! We also have articles that may help you? If you scroll down to the video description, you will find relevant articles. 🙂
Few errors, egypt was first in writing. Oldest poems are also of ancient egypt @@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia
I am writing an essay that's due tomorrow and this helped a lot. Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Awesome shirt! Love the videos
Thanks, Ricky! You can find our t-shirts here: worldhistory.store/
I know nothing about these civilizations. But I must begin learning more. I took a DNA test and found out I have possible relatives from Morocco, Egypt and Iraq. And it is very interesting.
They're definitely fascinating civilisations. Happy researching! 🙂
That’s probably modern DNA. Since ancient Egyptians DNA didn’t originate in Africa. Egypt is right next to Palestine and that’s where Egyptian’s came from the Levant.
Us modern Egyptians have more African dna than our ancestors.
(Max Plank Uni)
@@R2d2.. That is not how DNA works. Yes modern Egyptians have more Sub-Saharan DNA, but it does not mean that is why a Black person has Egyptian ancestry. But they also descend from ancient Egyptians. My results simply means someone in my family lineage mixed with an Egyptian person possibly. Both ancient and modern Egyptians do not just come from the Levant, most of them also have ancestry from native North Africans if you look at the DNA.
Enheduanna is such an intriguing person. I wish we knew more about her
Two of my favorite ancient civilizations of all time!
Mines is Greece and Rome
@@LaniJeb96960 Also awesome ones :)
What About Atlantis? 😏
@@jameelisaac7122 Haha, I definitely prefer the real ones
@@elihinze3161 *Plato* would like to have a word with you...
Where did you buy the map behind you in frame?
Love the Lamasu tshirt.
Thank you!! You can find our ancient designs at www.worldhistory.store
I wouldn't say that Mesopotamia had "different cultures," in fact, the only unifying factor in Mesopotamia was their culture. I believe it would be more precise to say that Mesopotamia was separated by their staunchly independent city states. Keep in mind, these city states, especially early on in the Sumerian era, weren't made up of different people, but merely had different institutions ruling each city.
Of course, this is not to say that Mesopotamia remained made up of just one ethnic group or people, and I'm sure if you're watching this video you'd know what I'm talking about. Point is, culture was pretty much the same throughout Mesopotamia for much of it's history, but governments split.
But their language was different 😁
Babylonian and Assyrian are Semetics languages it's close to each others but different and they are totally different than Sumerian language...
@@mohammedkh4321The Babylonians and Assyrians both spoke the same language, Akkadian. And the Sumerians are the only exception, with them being a non semetic people 😁.
@@vadergamerboss6660 I know that both are Akkadian but each of them have a different accent 😊
@@mohammedkh4321 ancient mesopotamia civilization were created by WHITE sumerians and later huge mixing happend what created other races and destroyed the original race, same happend with ancient egypt.
@@paskasaatana6298 They weren't like white Europeans, they were absolutely some of them are brown and other white just like Iraq now, even if someone born white in Iraq it's impossible for him to save his white skin especially at that time of summer because Iraqi sun at summer would make him absolutely brown only if he stayed at home and didn't work under the sun! Heat in Iraq at summer record above 50 C ْ ! At the past it was rarely to see a white Iraqi live inside Iraq only the rich people (I mean men not women) but after maybe 90 s when we start used to have air conditioning in our homes and not going out home at the Middle of the day in Summer we could stay having white skin 😅 Iraq has almost the most hottest summer in the world and a cold winter ❄️
Great knowedge
Thank you!
I’m studying for my AP history test and this is literally saving me 😂
I admire deeply the ancient Egyptian civilization. 💟💓🙏
I took a lot notes while listening to this wonderfully prepared video. I think why they're similar is because they have a similar geography with rivers playing important roles in both of the civilizations. The similarity between their architectural forms might point to a sort of information exchange and/or trade between the regions around 3000 BC (which is also attested in extant artefacts from the period). Polytheism is not a surprising similarity as many cultures at the time were polytheistic.
By the way, I think it is proper to say that ancient Egyptian women had more power as there had been many female pharaohs, possibly beginning with Neithhotep, Merneith, Sobekneferu... till Hatshepsut,...,Cleopatra VII and so on!
Overall, I believe even though they're similar because of geography, they're distinct cultures with different conceptions of religion, art, architecture and the role of women in society.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. They are both fascinating cultures indeed.
Can you one for mesopotamia and harappa as they used to trade with each other
😍Gracias.
Culture intertwined during raids on each other led 2 simulation of knowledge.
For sure.
The two kingdoms were similar because they possibly shared information/ideas with each other.
2:05 There are only one cataracts in Egypt proper.
I think its a worthy mention that while hebrews did not build the pyramids, it's certainly true that the Israelite people spent centuries doing construction work for the ancient Egyptians. Instead, they were likely involved in building new cities and other projects within Egypt's vast empire.
Pernicious lies
its certainly not certain and was not mentioned in egyptian texts
welcome to golgumbaz, bijapur, karnataka, South India
Kelly, I'm falling love with your smile🥴🥰
Greeting Kelly, and thanks for the information you provide and the nice presentation as always 👍 I wonder why Mesopotamia comes from a Greek word 😄 and why Egypt comes from Greek Aegyptos and after that clues why so much hoax on history and degration on Greeks which in ancient times where respected by almost all the people around the globe 🙂 and they gave back their respects! Whatever, i think history and truths would have been much easier for us if Alexandria Bibliotheca wasnt destroyed at ancient times.
Those both names never used by Mesopotamian or Egyptian people 😅
@@mohammedkh4321 Oh that damn Greeks and Romans 😄 How was it called by them if you know it? Would like to know
@@Tekmirion Mesopotamian called their land Kengi, which means civilized land. The Arabs call it the country of blackness, because the one coming from the desert sees from afar a green strip that tends to black and it is dense palm trees and the word Iraq is derived from the Sumerian city Uruk, as Iraqis and Arabs call it Bilad Al Rafidein, which also means Land between two rivers, The ancient Egyptians called their country Kemet, and today the Egyptians called their country Misir and they nick name it Wady Al Neil and that means the Valley of Neill river.
@@mohammedkh4321 Thank you Mohammed. Glad to know it!
greek Aigyptos came from egyptian Hikuptah which was the name of the main temple complex in the city of Memphis, taken pars pro toto.
Mesopotamia The best and the greatest land of the oldest civilization in existence Sumeria🇮🇶🫡
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1) Sumerians weren't the first to develop writing. This is a fatal textual error by historians.
2) The oldest poetic texts weren't Gilgamesh (2000 BCE), but the Pyramid Texts of King Weni (2400 BCE)
Hi! The archaeological evidence we have proves that the Sumerians were the first to develop writing. Who knows what archaeological evidence we'll discover in the future, though. Thanks for watching!
How exactly did people build the pyramids? What technology could you employ today to build a similar structure? I think there are some pieces missing to the puzzle of World History. Big pieces.
If you do a Google search, you'll find lots of theories and discussion. 🙂
Was the Mesopotamian vision of the afterlife really so bleak? I mean, I believe there's nothing when you die, but wandering around in twilight and dust drinking from puddles? I wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning.
Anyone else doing this cause their teacher said so
Good luck with your studies. 🙂
hello Kelly, I was assigned to compare both Mesopotamia and Egypt for a report, and when I found this Video, I just took the words from it and treated it as my own, my teacher quickly noticed it and I was scolded for it, I plagiarized your video and I want to say that I am sorry for it
Hi! Thank you for owning up to it. Our content is great for research and education purposes, but obviously plagiarism is never okay.
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if one compares 2 civilizations with each other one should also know both. this is not the case here.
because we live relativly short lives knowledge has to be passed down to advance.but to reach our stage,shows me empathetic/knowledgesharing./stealing/decieving humans were on earth well before we thing they were.....so the way of life on this planet.....
Knowledge is such an important part of life. Thanks for watching!
it is not correct that Mesopotamian entu-priestess and the Great Wife of Amun were similar in their position. Practically in Egypt she was a real acting queen, but in Mesopotamia the entu-priestess was not married. In general the position of women in two cultures was very different
Well that does sound fascinating , perhaps Jeff bazos could do two individual shows based on the individual cultures and the blacks and arabs can stop ripping of whitey and thus creating a "Winn Winn Sanrio" for every one ? does that sound fair to you?
The Egyptian civilization is a funerary civilization. We notice their interest in tombs and embalming after death. As for the Mesopotamian civilization, it was religious and interested in building ziggurats, specifically the Babylonian civilization, which is considered the link with the metaphysical power to obtain its satisfaction for the prosperity of the country. The Mesopotamian civilization is advanced at all levels. But the two civilizations are adorable.
Great observations for both civilisations. Thanks for watching! 🙂
all levells? seriously? ever compared egyptian art with mesopotamian? can a zikkurat really be a match for a pyramid? yes the mesopotamians were better in maths and maybe also in astronomy, certainly not in medicine which was already observed by the persians and greeks.
I don’t know why everyone keeps grouping turkey,Syria,Iraq as mesotimea. They all were different cultures back then and the mesotimea they refer to is actually just iraq so call it Iraq just like how you call eygpt and Greece in their names which are actually not their true names
Have women invented beer?
Very possibly.
@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia I must tell my wife that she has some great women predecessors!
I always find it funny that people say Sumer predates ancient Egypt when they don't have a single thing standing longer than the Sphinx. The accomplishments of Egypt and the fact that the pyramids still exist, and the have preserved dead bodies just show they were ahead in technology.
Technically, Mesopotamia IS older than Egypt. It may not have many surviving historical sites like Egypt does, but they have left us with a rich literary history.
It does time changed that’s all like we have cell phones I don’t expect them to have cell phones but that don’t mean what they did in they time wasn’t top notch for that era
It not the same see more about ancient Egyptian please.
If you want to learn more about Ancient Egypt, you can find all of the videos we have published about Egypt here czcams.com/play/PLRIPanKDxKpuxGEyggtKPqVlaRiOzNRCl.html
Iraq vor 1000 years Name Mesopotamia
Middle East ❤
You are definitely reaching a bit to make a connection between Queen Hatshepsut and the Babylonian priestess. They are totally different. Hatshepsut actually was a Pharaoh, who actually ruled as pharaoh over Egypt, she was not a priestess that was as powerful as a pharaoh, she was a pharaoh. In Mesopotamia the priestesses could never be king or queen or lugal or any other name for a leader of the people.
The most significant difference was that Mesopotamia was a degenerate capitalist society while Egypt was a theocracy that functioned without usury.
Interesting point.
Maybe I expressed myself too forceful in making that point.
The Mesopotamians were a religious people but from the early beginning of Sumer the rich merchants practiced usury with grain and silver against their own people often forcing them into slavery and confiscating their property, and during the fall of the sumerian civilization and the rise of Akkad, selling their property to foreigners when the local debtor couldnt pay the interest.
Rich moneylender guilds formed inter-city alliances that were sometimes able to control kings and make war on other cities.
This got even worse under the semitic Akkadian and Babylonian empires to the point where sometimes even the temples made money with usury. This religious and moral degeneration led to an increase in prostitution, taverns, poverty, and foreign migrant workers that worked the big estates of the rich moneylenders. In Babylon every woman had to offer her 'services' to the temple once in her life until a patron offered her a coin at which point she was obliged to have intercourse with him to regain her freedom. This meant that some women had to spend years in service to the temple.
The mesopotamian moneylenders eventually got so rich that they were able to raise entire mercenary armies and make war on an international scale without the help of kings. The hyksos (hebrew) invasion of Egypt marked one such event and initiated the decline of Egyptian civilization. The Egyptians didnt practice usury which is why there was no rich merchant class directly below the king. The only form of money the Egyptians had was the scarab similar in use to the english tallystick.
Luke, you forgot about the Assyrian who started the Library.
When you notice how the Ancient Greeks fell while Ancient Egyptians stayed ok…
@@KatXYZ well ancient greek conquered Egypt for a long time like the Ptolemies
Indus valley was more advanced than either
This History just don't sound correct.
In what way?
Sudan…Ethiopia way older than Egypt …Mesopotamia is no where near their history!
Are you trying to educate us .I don't remember Sudan taking over the medertarainan sea and becoming a large empire..in fact I rember them having the little small pyramids which would indicate there kings not so great..
@@creolecajun9988 *Mediterranean.
😂😂😂😂 get educated
You need some proper education kid
You are spitting ignorance
Egyptian writing is older. It’s civilization is older. Compare the kings list and material culture left behind. There really is no comparison.
Actually, Mesopotamian writing and culture is older (by a little bit).
@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia give me an example
The earliest known Sumerian texts are dated to around 3400-3300 BCE, while the earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphs from the tomb U-J are dated to around 3200-3100 BCE. But, due to the error margins, it cannot be said conclusively which one is older. However, we are talking about the earliest KNOWN or DISCOVERED writing, who the hell knows when was the earliest actual writing in either of those cultures? On top of that, Egyptian and Sumerian writing are so different from each other, that they most likely developed independently from each other, and whichever was developed first was most likely due to sheer chance. I don't see why anybody should seriously care which one of them was actually developed first. They were both developed independently around the same time.
@@firstaidsack yeah, why do they try to fit Egyptian history into Sumerian history when the ancient Egyptians civilization was far more advanced. Up until around the 25th century bce the Sumerian king list was mythological. Gunter Dreyer says he has definitively dated Egyptian writing and that the dates for Sumerian writing are inconclusive and the Kish tablet is undeciphered, as far as we know that’s some mess Charles Woolly or Jules Oppert drew in the mud. Maybe they want to give priority to Mesopotamia because Abrahamic mythology places his origins there. Or maybe they don’t want to give Africa credit for the achievement? Why would someone invent piltdown man? And why would the inventors of the hoax be knighted?
@@afrominer123
Afrocentrism would get much more traction if y'all wouldn't fill it with conspiracy theories.