Devin teaches class!!!!!!!!!!

3 of Hammurabi`s Code

Law #127: "If anyone "point the finger" at a sister of a god or the wife of any one, and cannot prove it, this man shall be taken before the judges and his brow shall be marked. (By cutting the skin, or perhaps hair.)"

My opinion on this law is that it is a little crazy like cutting the skin or cutting the hair.

Law #22: "If anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death."

This one is a little harsh because instead getting killed they could just go to jail instead.

Law #196. "If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. If one break a man's bone, they shall break his bone. If one destroy the eye of a freeman or break the bone of a freeman he shall pay one mana of silver. If one destroy the eye of a man's slave or break a bone of a man's slave he shall pay one-half his price."

This law is crazy we don’t have laws like this but it’s really crazy but I choose it because it was an interesting law.

Mondays without my human geo buddy

Today in class we learned about:

• Europe and the Americas (western world)
• Northern hemisphere is when your talking about anything north of the equator
• Southern hemisphere is when your talking about everything south of the equator
• Pre-history is before people knew how to write
• populations rose due to increase ability to care for young children
• Initially, humans were parts of migratory groups which hunted, fished and gathered plants for food.
• Neolithic Age (new stone age) was marked by advanced tool making and the beginnings of agriculture
• Agricultural Revolution:
• Agricultural refers to farmers
• Also known as the Neolithic Revolution this was a shift from itinerant hunting/gathering to more permanent settlements centered on agriculture(beginning in southern Asia)
• Hierchies appeared in village life; the status of women was lowered as women were confined more to domestic duties
• Invention of wheel and plow make it possible to produce enough food for storage
• Villagers were polytheists, worshipped multiple nature, human and animal gods
• The earliest cities: Mesopotamia
• Sumer
• Sumer occupied the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
• Population increased drastically due to new irrigation techniques
• Cities and towns were founded, some with as many as 40,000 inhabitants
• More adequate food storage allowed for diversity in professions: Priests, tradesmen, artisans, politicians, farmers
• Kings emerged, as did family dynasties and the concept of the "city state"
• Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing, known as "Cuneiform"
• "City-state" - area that had its own government
• Sumer:
• A pantheon of Sumerian gods and goddesses emerged, with may of the deities representing the natural elements of the world
• The worlds first (surviving) epic was the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh," which was the great flood
• Sumerians first divided the hour into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds; they also organized a calendar based on moon cycles
• The ziggurat was a Sumerian temple built on top of a "mountain" of earth
• King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws known as the 'Hammurabi`s Code"

Awesome Fridays!

So today in class we met all of our new/old class mates that our in our new western civilization class. We set up our new blogs for this semester and we all successfully sent you are URl to our blogs. Then we talked about what we write on our blogs or at least we were going to. We did actually talk about that even if your not in class that day you still have to post. On Friday we get an extra day to do our blog. Blogs are big points you will not get an A in this class if you don't do your blogs regularly. I cant believe that I don't have Angela in my class anymore. I'm really upset about that because its so lonely without her in this class. We were like study buddies! She reminded me to do my blog every night. Now who will remind me. Its so sad but this class will still be fun. I will get at least one A on one of you test this year. I'm going to remember to do my blog this semester I promise. I want to get an A in your class this quarter and next quarter. I ma going to study and try a lot harder and pay more attention in class this quarter. Well Bye!!

My first post of West Civ2014

West civilization 2014 test blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1