Comparing Greek Peninsula And Nile Valley

Geography plays a big role in the shaping of Western Civilization. This is particularly to the Greek peninsula and the Nile Valley. People don’t really understand how much real work these people had to do to be able to survive. It is until now that society really knows what these communities did. Water was the main resource for these two civilizations to be able to survive. They both share some ways of living and definitely some differences. Agriculture was one of the differences/similarities because they each were able to cultivate in different ways and depended on the season. They were both able to trade and both had different political views. The Greek peninsula has two distinctive geographic features that influenced the development of

Therefore, it was important to keep them happy. The gods could make the Nile River overflow and even bring death. They also promoted some human beings to gods. Their leaders called pharaohs were believed to be gods as humans. They had absolute power. After pharaohs died, huge stone pyramids were built as their tombs. Pharaohs were buried in chambers within the pyramids. “Because the people of Egypt believed that their pharaohs were gods, they entrusted their rulers with many responsibilities. Protection was at the top of the list. The pharaoh directed the army in case of a foreign threat or an internal conflict. All laws were enacted at the discretion of the pharaoh” (ushistory.org). Each farmer paid taxes in form of grain, which were stored in the pharaoh's warehouses. “This grain was used to feed the people in the event of a famine”( ushistory.org). Greeks, specially the Athenians stablished democracy, every citizen was required to participate or suffer punishment. Citizens could choose whether or not they wish to participate. Not everyone in Athens was considered a citizen. Only free, adult men had rights and responsibility of citizenship. “Only about 20 percent of the population of Athens was citizens”( ushistory.org). Women were not citizens. They were not allowed to vote nor have any say in the political process. “They were rarely permitted out in public and were even restricted as to where they could be within their own homes. Slaves and foreigners were not citizens and also could not participate in the democracy”(ushistory.org). Democracy existed only for the free men who were originally from