what are the consequences between Harappan civilization and Egyptian civilization
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Although comparable with Mesopotamia, in that both countries contained great rivers flowing through immensely fertile valleys and plains which offered parallel opportunities to early humans, the evolution of urban settlements in Egypt took place along markedly different lines.
Leonard Wooley stated: “nothing could be more unlike the mosaic of city states that divided between them the valleys of Euphrates and Tigris, than the unified kingdom of Egypt.” Egypt, in effect the Nile Valley and Delta, was a unified state from about 3100 B.C.
Although in some respects a later civilization than the Mesopotamian, nevertheless it is clear that only a comparably advanced society could have organized and carried through immensely demanding early third millennium monumental construction programme.- of which the Great Pyramid of Kheops of Gizeh, dated from 2600 B.C., is arguably the greatest wonder of all times. Archeological evidence confirms that the Egyptian cities of thisperiod included Memphis (the first capital) known to have been founded around 3100 B.C.
Absence of identifiable early urban remains:
There are few urban archaeological remains dating to the period before 2000 B.C. while after that the remains of cities are more extensive; yet we do not possess any fully reconstructed plans of Egyptian cities.
Reasons:
1. Relative internal peace at the time-obviated need to build strong walls for defense as in Mesopotamia. This, in turn, allowed more 'u