ABSTRACT
These societies affected later ones sometimes in direct ways and sometimes in oblique ways. We cannot always trace exactly how the interaction might have taken place. But many later peoples attested to their influence, either by asserting, as the Greeks did, that every human institution really started in Egypt, or simply by using the techniques developed in the Ancient Near East to pursue their own agendas. Here we will look at a few areas of endeavor where the influences are clearest.
