Their were many differences and similarities in the development of ancient Egypt and Nubia in the eastern hemisphere compared to the Olmec and Chavin societies in the western hemisphere. One difference between the development of the east and western hemisphere was that the land structures of the physical environment where way different, another difference was the kind of artifacts and the way of making them and their reasons for making them. Their were also a few similarities between the two one was that they both had a high agricultural productivity level.
One difference between the development of the eastern and western hemisphere was the land structure or the physical environment. The land structure of the Western hemisphere (where the Olmec and Chavin were located) was very active. Olmecs experienced many earthquakes and volcano eruptions. It had Mountain ranges break the region into micro environments. Chavins had a mountainous core, an arid coastal plain and dense interior jungle. The land structure of the Eastern hemisphere (where ancient Egypt and Nubia were located) Nubia is the only continuously inhabited stretches of territory connecting sub Saharan Africa with North Africa. The Nile River was a huge geographical feature of Nubia, as of Egypt. Egypt had a landscape of rocky desert, grassland, and fertile plain it was also severely hot.
Another difference between the two was the kinds of artifacts and the way of making them and their reasons for making them. In the eastern hemisphere their was the Temple of the Lio-Headed God Apedemak. On it shows Queen Amanitore and her husband Natakamani slaying their enemies. The Egyptians erected a string of mud brick forts on island and riverbanks. On the Western hemisphere the Olmecs carved Olmec heads. They were giant heads sculpted from basalt are a widely recognized legacy of Olmec culture. Sixteen heads have been found, the largest approximately 11 feet tall. Experts in Olmec...