Two Prime Fields Isomorphic to Zp and Zq

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Why is it not possible for a filed to have have two prime fileds one isomorphic to Zp and the other isomorphic to Zq for p and q primes.
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Why is it not possible for a filed to have have two prime fileds one isomorphic to Zp and the other isomorphic to Zq for p and q primes.
Thank you

There's only one characteristic. 1 + 1 + ... + 1 = 0 for some prime number p of 1's (where 1 is the multiplicative identity of the field) and p is therefore the characteristic, and Z/pZ is the prime field.
 

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