Identical Diversity of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece

Mesopotamia is a Greek term which refers to the land between cardinal rivers viz. Euphrates and Tigris which is now called Iraq. Mesopotamia is known for being occupied by the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians which helped in qualification it a very diverse civilization both in cultivation and design. Due to the incident that Mesopotamia is a land between two rivers, their fashion of writing, farming (irrigation), astronomy, literature and design all depended on the two rivers. classical Greece literally means a culture wherein Greeks and Asians are together. This vision started with the conquest of Alexander the great which started with the conquest of Babylon up to the trip to India. All of his efforts helped send the Greek Culture all throughout Asia. Aside from that, the very initial conquest of Alexander the great was Mycenae and then the infamous Egypt was next, which is why at that place was a city in Egypt called Alexandria. With all the contrastive c onquests and all the different cultures coinciding with each other, it is evident that there may be transformation in the three civilizations, but surely there will stimulate been common structural and cultural designs that will clash with each other. twain of the civilizations, namely Mesopotamia and Egypt share common architecture. Seldom do they create steep homes or buildings most in particular under the heat of the sun. They create buildings that prepare ceilings that would bend inwards if not arching upwards. In creating their housing they exactly use branches and mud to be able to make their shelter die hard proof.Although when it comes to building tombs or monuments much(prenominal) as temples and palaces they make use of bricks and in the case of the Egyptians by 4000 BC they make use of stones such as limestone, granite and sandstone. In both civilizations they creatively make sun dried bricks made of mud to be able to make their infamous monuments. Monuments that still hold until now such as Mastabas in the case of the Egyptians, where they bury their at rest(predicate) and the great Ziggurats of the Mesopotamians were the first monumental buildings made by man kind.On the other hand, Greece was famous for a number of different monuments. In Mycenae tombs such as that found in the other two civilizations is present namely the great beehive tombs and massive palaces. The Greeks are famous when it comes to the pillars with a decorate top or formally called as capitals. But unknown to some(prenominal) men, these originate in the basic design of Mesopotamian and Egyptian pillars.Pillars in these two countries used to be made of spate of reeds. When one looks at the bundle of reeds they seem like a circular arrangement pointing upwards in a neat array with protrusions on the bottom and most especially on the top. Egyptians evolved from reeds to stone. Egyptians made pillars made of stone in the way that their preceding(prenominal) pillars w here made, they placed palm-leaf designs for the capitals and ribbed fluting to make it similar to their pillars of reeds. From this design the Greeks change it in such a way that they made the pillars a flock slimmer for balance but still kept the capitals and used it as a horizontal support.Generally there are a lot more than different influences are shared by these three civilizations due to the fact that they share common history. Monuments, buildings and pillars are just some of the great undistinguishable differences they may have.Highlights from the Collection Mesopotamia, Oriental Institute of theUniversity of Chicago, Online operational at http//oi.uchicago.edu/museum/highlights/meso.htmlMesopotamia, antediluvian patriarch History Sourcebook Mesopotamia, OnlineIraq-Ancient Mesopotamia, Library of Congress Article on Ancient Iraq, OnlineAvailable at http http//ancienthistory.about.com/od/neareast/a/LOCIraq.htmGreece, Cyber Museum, OnlineAvailable at http//members.tripod. com/jaydambrosio/greece.htmlFletcher, T. 2006, A little(a) History of the World Architecture, Essential Architecture, OnlineAvailable at http//www.essential-architecture.com/MISC/MISC-hist.htm