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What Are Gender Roles In Ancient Egypt

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Joy Ogbonna

Two ancient civilization Mesopotamia and Egypt created unique and complex civilizations with distinct political, social, and religious characteristics. Egypt and Mesopotamian civilizations are different in gender roles, but similar in religion and political structure. Each civilization viewed the world very different, and these differences led to the instability of Mesopotamia, and protection of the civilization. The historical evidence would indicate that the two civilizations, Mesopotamia and Egypt had some subtle differences but for the most part they were very alike.
Although Egypt and Mesopotamia were among the first river valley civilizations, but their different views on the world greatly changed their social structure.Their …show more content…

Each civilization had some form of ruler believed to have some connection with the gods, and protect their society. In ancient Egypt their political leader was called pharaoh. The pharaoh was believed to be a combination of Gods and a human being, he was the link between the Gods and mankind. The king was distinguished in many ways, such as wearing a special crown and changing his name. The primary role of the king was to maintain ma’at. Ma’at was the concept of truth, balance and justice. In Mesopotamia their political leader was called the lugal. The purpose of Mesopotamian lugal was to provide military protection and also initiate religious rituals. Mesopotamians also believed that their king was the link between the Gods, but few kings claimed they were actually gods.
Religion was a huge part of Mesopotamia,and ancient Egyptians. Both Egyptians and Mesopotamians believed that worshiping their gods was the primary purpose of life. They would pray for at least 3 hours a day, and donate up to half of their life savings, to the gods. Egypt and Mesopotamia both had a belief in afterlife (though Egypt’s belief in afterlife was stronger than Mesopotamia), and were controlled by the principle of ma’at.The main similarity between the two civilizations is they both believed in many Gods, and that there god’s took form in powers of

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