Egypt and Mesopotamia

Egyptian social classes were mainly made up of pharaohs, which were the supreme central ruler, then peasants, who supplied all of the hard work and labor which made the agricultural society possible. Egyptian society was unlike the social classes of the Mesopotamian society which was a more defined social class. The Mesopotamian social class was as follows: first the Ruling class which was based often on military prowess, originally these rulers was elected, in which it later became a hereditary honor. Second would be the religious class, next came the free commoners, and finally the peasant class. Not only did the Egyptian society have less defined social classes but since their pharaohs weren't hereditarily selected the common people could actually have a chance at serving some high political office such as a tax collector.

Since Egypt has a pharaoh, they (the country) were ruled under one supreme ruler this made Egypt a national society. Mesopotamia was still in the stages of having city - states, therefore there wasn't one person or a government who ruled more than one small area. All of the city - states in Mesopotamia were ruled on an individual level, rather than a large scale ruling.(Grant)

Some may think that the pyramids of the Egyptian people were their greatest wealth achievements, however this isn't true. Others may think that the marvelous stone statues or their golden crowns were their wealthiest achievements, however again this is wrong. The greatest wealth of the Egyptian society was the Nile River, which produced the "mother" of the Egyptian Civilization: the soil.

Although, both Mesopotamia and Egypt were built and depended on rivers to help their societies, Mesopotamia depended more on the river for irrigation for agricultural

purposes, and other things such as baths or cleaning; but the Egyptians depended not only on the Nile River for irrigation and the other reasons as the Mesopotamians, but the Nile River also provided a nutrient rich soil for them to plant their crops in.