Compare And Contrast Greece And Mesopotamia

Homo sapiens first emerged 200,000 to 250,000 years ago, in southern Africa. Migration leads to adopting new tech and thinking. Geography starts to diverse the population (Ex. Language). The first societies (Paleolithic societies) where small mostly nomadic and hunting-gathering society. These societies were viewed as primitive but they had a lot of free time because their needs were simple. Agriculture evolved with farming and domestication of animals. The area that went through this evolution were specific (Ex. Fertile Crescent). These new advancements lead to tech, gender roles, and new ways of living diminishing hunter-gathering societies creating power posteriors like chiefdoms. Soon civilizations started to form rapidly increasing and

The two major civilizations that formed were Mesopotamia and Egypt. Both had a look out of the afterlife but the Egyptians had a much more optimistic outlook of the afterlife while the Mesopotamians had a much bleaker outlook of the afterlife. This is thought to be from the geography where the Nile was predictable while Mesopotamia had unpredictable floods.

2nd wave civilizations had their own political system, cultural values, and an organized society. The Persian empire was the largest and most impressive of its time. In contrast to the Persian empire the small city-states of Greece. After the Persian took control of Ionia Athens gave them support to rebel against the Persians upsetting them. The Persians then went after Greece but the greeks held them off leading to a mass spread of their culture. Soon the greeks were conquered and united. Leading to Alexander the Great who took over most of Europe and Asia. Around this time the roman and Chinese empires rose. The Romans taking over most of the Mediterranean. China was in ruins but was united and came back to its former glory by Qiu Shi Huangdi. Before Qiu Shi Huangdi under the Zhou dynasty, the country was in disorder. One way to