How did the ancient egypt civilization and the ancient mesopotamia civilization help change the world?
August 14th, 2010 | 
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My knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia (Babylon, Assyria, ect.) is lacking.
However, I used to be an EGYPT FREAK when I was in school.
For over 5,000 years, Egypt, or as the Egyptians called it, Khemet-Land of the Black Sand-dominated the region. With such a strategic posion like NE Africa, Egypt had inluence on many cultures such as Greece and later Rome. The Alphabet we normally attribute to Rome had it’s roots in Ancient Egyptian Heiroglyphics.
The long “A” in Heiroglyphics was represented with an Ox head. Turn the “A” upside down, add eyes, and use your imagination. I do not feel like typing all the remeblences, but there are many.
If the Bible is to be believed, Egypt had a massive impact on the world as the rulers over Isreal for many years. Of course, you have the story of Moses, among many other.
Religiously, Osiris evolved into Zeus, Isis into Hera, Ra into Hercules, and Seth into Hades. Seeing Egypt’s stability as an Empire had a profound impact on Greece, which took many aspects of Egyptian Civilization.
However, Greece was not to outlast Egypt, that would fall to the Romans. With Cleopatra’s suicide, Egypt as an independent nation would have to wait hundreds of years and switch hands with Persia, The various Kaliphs the Ottoman Empire and Great Britian.
However, ancient Egypt still lived on with the very Empires that dominated it for so many years.
Western societies structure owes much to Ancient Egypt, as it influnced Greece, which influenced Rome, which of course, influenced the West.
These are the first two places where farming, food storage, and the building of cities took place…
Not that much.
The Egyptians figured out how to make bronze, but that seeem to be the only founder technology they can claim. Farming started in Turkey, as did stone building construction (Gobekli Tepe). Copper working started in the Balkans, iron in Turkey. Writing and maths are looking more likely to have come from SE Europe, as several examples of runic a script way over 8,000 years old have been found in Bulgaria.
Everyone keeps trying to claim these two civilisations invented everything, it’s not true. Egypt was one of the last countries around the med to start using metal tools. I think Sumeria invented the potters wheel, but the wheel was used for transport in the Ukraine first.
They seem to have had more of a religious effect. The circumcision tradition of the muslims and jews comes from the Sudan via Egypt, and the word Messiah is from the Egyotian word ‘to annoint’ (with crocodile fat, I think). Most Judeo Christian myths evolved out of the ancient near Eastern pantheons.
This question is too broad for anyone to answer in a brief email.
A book I recommend is: “Egypt, Trunk of the Tree” by Simson Najovits