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    was Thutmose I who was the son of unknown warrior and queen Ahhotep’s daughter. He earned control over the Nubians’ gold mines by sending them to the south and penetrated deeper into Palestine and Syria. Thutmose I during his leadership expanded Egypt territory; the country prospered.

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    to make sure the laws were being followed. The vizier had nomarks who were the ones that really went around the cities. In Egypt, the cities were actually called nomes and the nomarks were like the governor Their main job was to check on all the people and bring back information to the vizier who then gives the information to the pharaoh. One thing the pharaoh does for Egypt is he decides what the laws are, he runs the government, and he also controls what religion everybody had to follow. Although

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    Ancient Egypt experienced an intricate set of funerary monuments that made them believe were essential for their immortality afterlife. Some of these rituals are mummifying the body, magic spells casting, and burying people with certain goods. These rituals were to be used in the afterlife. The process of burying people evolved throughout time with old customs rejected as they adopt new ones. Nevertheless, the people maintained other elements that were significant in both generations. Even though

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    sometimes flood their crops. Mesopotamia’s safety was lower than Egypt’s. Mesopotamia was out in the open land with no barriers to hinder potential invaders. Egypt was more invader-prone because it was “surrounded by deserts, mountains, seas, and cataracts.” Mesopotamia was pessimistic about life, because they faced violence and invaders more than Egypt did. They believed that humankind

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    Ancient Egypt was a highly advanced and developed civilization, and this can be shown through the seven indicators. This was displayed within the ancient Egyptians everyday lives. The Egyptians had very unique and well thought out ways of life. They had social classes, if someone had a job and it was a superior job that person would have a better reputation and most likely have more money and power than someone that had a less important job. In a book titled, Ancient Civilizations, it states that

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    Final chapter focus is ANE concept of the afterlife and the future on this earth. The Egyptian concept consisted of spells to bring hope to the pharaohs, to common people, and to individuals at some cases given the impression one can come back from afterlife. The Mesopotamians, in the other hand, their hopes are vague and based more on their observation and experiences in life. However, Israel has a well-defined expectation of where people is going afterlife by believing that something better will

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    sophistication of ancient Egyptian society in 3500 BCE? tomb remains  Which of the following cultures could have been influential in the Predynastic tomb painting, People, Boats, and Animals? Sumer  The ancient Egyptians believed the unification of Egypt took place in a single great event. Which of the following is a record of that great event? Palette of Narmer  Which of the following provided the principal information regarding the reconstruction of ancient Egyptian civilization? tomb interiors

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    cultures were able to be successful in their way of life. Ancient cultures in this case Mesopotamia and Egypt were sucessful in both their different and same unique ways, weather it'll be in term of their beliefs, way of life, or how the civilization were being govern, each have their own ways to sucess and are able to pass on that knowledge to the future generation. Ancient cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt are able to develop into sucessful civilization by their governors being able to create a laws for

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    the world over. In regards to ruling, the initial two civic establishments of Egypt and Mesopotamia were indistinguishable. Leaders of Egypt were called pharaohs, and Mesopotamia had a class framework wherein the wealthiest class were the rulers much like Egyptians. The majority of the civic establishments each addressed their own gods. Some were fundamentally the same as one another, despite the fact that for Egypt, they trusted that their pharaoh was their God on earth. In Mesopotamia,

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    Location, Geography and Climate Ancient Egypt is known to have been the world’s longest lasting civilization due to their unique climatic and geographic conditions, a stable hierarchical society of government, and a religion that revolves around death and afterlife. Egypt’s glory went on for over four millennia from around 5500 B.C.E. to its conquest by the Greek in 332 B.C.E. Egypt is located in the northern edge of the Sahara desert, with the river Nile dissecting the land from the south to the

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