Question

Use the chart from U3L4 to answer the following questions:

Egypt Both Mesopotamia
Nile River

River flooding was predictable

Gods were good and gave beneficial floods; Amen-Ra

Hieroglyphs

Pharaohs

Ramp and lever, geometry, ships, and medicine

River valley civilizations

Fertile farmland

Polytheism

Similar social structure

Significant technological development

Tigris and Euphrates rivers

River flooding was unpredictable

Gods were punishing and must be appeased to prevent torrential floods; Enil

Cuneiform

Kings

Domestication of livestock, wheels, sails, basic tools, chariot

What type of religion did Egypt and Mesopotamia have in common?

(1 point)
Responses

monotheism
monotheism

polytheism
polytheism

theocracy
theocracy

no religion

Answer 1

The type of religion that Egypt and Mesopotamia had in common is **polytheism**.