Communication and writing
Differences
Egypt
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Modern Society
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Similarities
- Use of writing for rules, law, history, culture, and recording accounts.
Ancient Egyptians record their rules, laws and history using Hieroglyphics. There is limited information about what they recorded because they lived thousands of years ago and over time, information has been lost. Some Hieroglyphics have been found that have information accounting for how many crops have been harvested that year and previous years.
Modern Society
Modern society still record everything. It is so much easier now than Ancient Egyptian times. Every time someone goes to court and has a trial, there will be a journalist there, recording it for future reference. This proves that both Ancient Egyptians and modern society use writing to record everything.
- Used to communicate with other people who we cannot talk to in person
It was very hard for people to communicate in Ancient Egypt, since there were not enough Scribes for everyones needs. People who couldn't write would pay a Scribe to write and send a letter to a person of their choice.
Modern Society
Now there are many different ways to send people messages. You can send it through text, email, instagram, facebook and many other sources. It is so easy to send a message to someone who lives on the other side of the world because our technology has upgraded so much. Technology has been one of the biggest changes since Egyptian times and has enabled us to communicate in many different ways.
Medicine and Health
Differences
Ancient Egypt
People in Ancient Egypt were lucky to live to the age of 40. This was because they did not have the technology we have now to cure diseases such as malaria. People had no idea what they needed to eat to get the nutrients they needed to survive, meaning that if an Ancient Egyptian person was living on wheat and barley, they would die because they do not have the vitamins they need from meat.
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Modern Society
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Similarities
- Natural plants are used
Ancient Egyptians had to use the resources that were around them. This always meant they would gather herbs and plants with medicinal properties. For example, Egyptians had a problem with eye infections and so created a solution to this by applying eye paint around the eyes which contained malachite, a medical plant that prevented eye infections.
Modern Society
Modern Society still use natural plants, but they are modified and smashed together to create a pill or syrup. All medicine comes from natural plants, but our technology has come so far that we can mix plants together to create a greater number of cures for illness and disease.
- Surgery
Surgery was used in Ancient Egypt, but only very basic. They used knives, hooks and drills to cut into peoples bodies and remove the parts causing pain or diseased. An example of how they did surgery was if someone had internal brain bleeding, they would just take out the part of the brain which was bleeding. Most people did not survive surgery.
Modern Society
Surgery is very complicated now and the surgeons have extensive skill and knowledge that almost anything is possible. They can do skin removal, leg transplants and many other surgeries. They only know this because we have gathered so much information over the hundreds of years that we have the knowledge to do the risky surgery. We also have lots of technology that helps them with the surgery.
- Doctors
There were many doctors in Ancient Egypt. Most of them believed in the gods. They all had read from the ancient book of knowledge. There were many different ranks for being a doctor. The highest rank a doctor could become was working for the Pharaoh.
Modern Society
There are many types of doctors. You can specialise in surgery, physio, General Practitioner or an emergency doctor at the hospital.
Sanitation and Nutrition
Differences
Ancient Egypt
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Modern Society
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Similarities
- Washed regularly
People in Ancient Egypt made it a habit that they would wash before and after meals and rituals. This kept them very clean and healthy. They washed so they could "Drive the odour of sweat from the body of a person in summer"
Modern Society
Our modern society makes sure we wash each day. But in Ancient Egypt they used stone basins. We now have invented showers and baths. We also have shampoo and conditioner and frangranced perfumes.
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/cosmetics.htm
- Agriculture
They had only just invented agriculture and it was very common throughout Egypt. They only knew the basic of agriculture such as growing the seed, cutting them with a knife and regrowing them.
Modern society
We have been around the earth for so long that we have learnt how to do things faster. An example of this is through agriculture. When we first started agriculture, we didn't have any machines and humans were forced to work in the agricultural business. Now we have machines that do most of the work for us so we don't have to do anything but control the machine.
- Farming domestic animals
In Ancient Egypt, they had only just thought of farming domestic animals and becoming settled. They hadn't thought of farming lots of animals together and only put two in a pen. This made farming a-lot slower and less productive than it could be. It also took time for the animals to breed, and people could go for weeks without any meat.
Modern Society
Now, we have farms for farming, killing and butchering animals. We sometimes put up to 100 animals of the same breed into one pen, and leaving them to breed. This makes farming a-lot faster for our ever-growing population.