Chapter 1 Compare Mesopotamian civilization with Egyptian civilization. Mesopotamia and Egypt were both ruled by strong leader that the people thought were gods or descendents from God. In Egypt they were called pharaohs and in Mesopotamia they were simply kings. Both civilizations went through some kind of political consolidation at some point in their histories. They were also both religious and merged their religions with their politics. Both civilizations constructed huge scale building projects to include …showed first 75 words of 785 total…

…showed last 75 words of 785 total…because their ideals made sense in human nature and are still practiced. Give some examples of that legacy from the text including some famous Greeks responsible for that legacy. I sighted some examples of the Greeks legacy in the question above. Politics, democracy, philosophy, history and tragedy were all part of the Greek legacy left behind. I think famous Greeks responsible for some of these legacies would be the likes of Solon, Aristotle, and Socrates.