Ancient Mesopotamia

Egyptian Life

• Built cities near water for fertile land

  • Nile helped with water, food, and transportation

  • land helped build their animals

• Governance

  • believed the universe and all events occurred within the will of gods

  • they didn’t just rely on them for the weather but they also relied on them for justice, kingship, protection and truth

• gods

  • Egyptian gods were often depicted with animal heads

  • they did not believe they were animals but they were a combination of human-animal combinations

  • they believed they were supernatural and symbolize the multiple powers of certain deities

• After life

  • they believed they would remain forever accompanied by images of family and servants

  • they cycles of human life, rebith, and afterlife mirrored by the reproductive cycles that surround them in the natural world