Known to the Greeks as Mesopotamia; Greek for "between the rivers," this area falls between the Tigris and Euphrates River. Egypt, one of Africa's earliest civilizations, is known as "the Gift of the Nile" according to a Greek historian. Mesopotamian and the Egyptian areas have several things in common, like the fact that they are both products of their environments. While they are alike in certain areas, both have their own distinct differences.
             Several similarities exist in the areas of Mesopotamia and Egypt. First, both of these regions are societies based upon the centralized control of irrigation and flood management, better known as being hydraulic societies. Secondly, Mesopotamian and Egyptian economies are built on the basis of agriculture and commerce. This is no doubt considering both areas rely on their rivers so heavily, for transportation, irrigation and food. Third, both of these regions have made significant progress in sciences and mathematics- from dealing with problems of irrigation and land boundaries.
             Aside from the Mesopotamian and Egyptian cultures both relying so heavily upon their water sources, these rivers differentiate greatly. In Mesopotamia when the snow that covers the area melts and turns to water, it floods the land and can be very destructive. In contrast, in Egypt it rains very little, but when torrential rains come in from Uganda, as they do yearly, the Nile will flood. These waters however, are not destructive as they are in Mesopotamia. A second difference between the two areas is their locations and the impacts on invasions. The Mesopotamian area is located on a vast area of plains and is prone to invasions. Egypt however is surrounded on three sides by deserts and on the fourth side by ocean, which keeps if from never being invaded. Lastly, the Mesopotamian and Egyptian cultures each had their own unique writing systems. The Mesopotamian's w
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