Laws

14. If a man has stolen a child, he shall be put to death.

This is a good law because people that steal other people’s children, should not be able to live.

195.  If a son has struck his father, his hands shall be cut off. 

This is unfair because to everyone because someone that has a hand cut off wouldn't be able to do work as well and that would hurt the whole town.

196. If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician, his eye shall be knocked out.

I was really surprised to hear this one because what if they were fighting and someone was just defending themselves. It isn't fair to make permanent decisions before finding out the truth.

Today our power point was about the first writings, laws, and languages. We worked on the the Hammurabi laws and how they were greatly followed many years ago. Some of the laws were crazy, and many involved death. 

First Humans

Today in class, we learned about how people developed 200,000 yeas ago. Those people couldn't even write a language because they were not developed enough. Around 14,000 years ago, people starting writing the in clay. Men were considered the hierarchies because they could hunt and were stronger. Women took care of the children and babies. Babies often didn't survive 200,000 years ago because people didn't know how to take care of them and didn't have time to care for them. Children started working young because the people needed all the help they could get. Scribes would record the alphabet that would become their language. We went over a power point in class today that had all of this information on it.

First Western Civ. Class

Today was my first Western Civilization class. Last semester, I had Mr. Teter. During this first class, we set up our blogs and talked about them. We discussed the format of our blogs and everything about them. I am not sure how I feel about blogs because we have to right them every day. We had to email this link that set up our blogs. They kind of confuse me because the way we do blogs is different then what I am used to. Our class was really short because of the two hour delay but I am not complaining. I am happy to be in class with my friends that I normally don't have class with. I am excited to be in a new class but am also nervous because I want to do well. I hope I have a great second semester and I look forward to my new classes with new people. 

my first post

this is my first post im just checking to see if this works