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Compare And Contrast Ancient Egypt And Roman Transportation

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Both Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome came about in 30 BC. Both of their monarchs were big rivals. Both countries tried to outdo each other and make better things than each other. Both Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome dealt with transportation but they did so in different ways. Ancient Egypt had decent quality transportation but Ancient Rome had better quality equipment and overall better forms of transportation. Ancient Egypt used boats as their main transportation because they had a lot of water near them and the Nile River was called the highway for Ancient Egypt. The Romans built over 53,000 miles of paved roads stretching from Scotland to Eastern Europe to Mesopotamia, which in present days is Iraq to North Africa.

Being high on the social pyramid and owning a lot of boats was the same as being in Ancient Rome and having a lot of chariots and litters. Both Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome used their feet and walking sticks that elderly people used when they are old and can’t see very far. They both used chariots and litters and also boats. They also both have funeral boats, used to carry a dead person to a funeral and then back to a gravestone. A merchant ship was when you take merchandise from one place to another place. Long distance boats were for people that travel long distances and for people that are traveling from one country to another. A pleasure barge was a flat-bottomed slow-moving boat used for leisure. It is contrasted with a standard barge which was used to transport freight. Warships were boats used in battle with other …show more content…

The tools and materials that Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome used were hammers made of dry clay or stone and cut wood from trees used as handle sticks. They use similar tools now. Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome had smaller boats and used different wood than what Egypt and Rome currently use

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