Chapter 3: Documents

The differences between the Egyptians and the Persians to the greeks is less then I expected. persians don't have any areas of worships or pictures for their gods. The Greeks believed that the gods don't live in the same world as they do. egyptians wrote from right to left where as the Greeks wrote left to write.

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