Besides Mesopotamia, a second civilization grew up in northeastern Africa, along the Nile River. Egyptian civilization, formed by 3000 B.C., benefited from trade and technological influence from Mesopotamia, but it produced a quite different society and culture. Because its values and its tightly knit political organization encouraged monumental building, we know more about Egypt than about Mesopotamia, even though the latter was in most respects more important and richer in subsequent heritage.
Basic Patterns Of Egyptian Society
Unlike Mesopotamia and the Middle East, where an original river-valley
basis to civilization ultimately gave way to the spread of civilization
throughout an entire region, Egyptian civil
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