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Were the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotania primitive?
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Were the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotania primitive? At the dawn of civilization, 3000 years ago, human populations were very small. These populations gathered together and found that living in a structured and organized co-existence was for the better of all. Small settlements became cities, which in turn, with time, became whole civilizations. It could be argued whether these early civilizations were primitive or not, but by definition, the answer is a firm yes. To be primitive, is to be in an early stage of development, very crude, very simple. As civilizations such as the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians were at the beginning of humanities evolution towards a complex civilization that exists today, they by fact, are an early stage of humanities development, and therefore primitive. There are many areas that illustrate this primitiveness when a comparison is drawn between these early Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, and civilizations that followed...
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