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Egypt used the pyramids to show surrounding peoples that it was favored by the gods, while Mesopotamia first tried ziggurats and then produced the Epic of Gilgamesh as its more enduring answer.
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Egypt used the pyramids to show surrounding peoples that it was favored by the gods, while Mesopotamia first tried ziggurats and then produced the Epic of Gilgamesh as its more enduring answer.
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"okay all right let's continue all right okay so both egypt and both mesopotamia they are in a struggle to prove their mythologies are..."
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"...i mean at first they tried they created things called the ziggurats the ziggurats which are temples to house the gods okay but then..."
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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