Today in West Civ class we had a lockdown. We found out
where we would go in case an intruder comes into the building. Other than that
we went over what we did in the last class which was the notes we took. Phil
and Jevan taught the class for a while when we were reviewing notes, which was
pretty funny. We took new notes today which were still based on the city, Sumer.
We learned what a Pantheon was, which is the highest peak of something. So a Pantheon
of Sumerian Gods (Example: God of Fire) emerged and Ziggurats were made.
Ziggurats were Sumerian Temples built on top of mountains on earth. They were
built on “mountains” to symbolize the people’s beliefs and make them bigger. We
also learned about Hammurabi’s Laws, made by King Hammurabi of Babylon which
were made to contain the estimated 40,000 people in towns. The three that
really stuck out to me were rule number 141, 195, and 210. The reason why they
jumped out at me were because they showed me that back in that time men were so
superior to everyone else. Once someone did something wrong or wrong to a man,
they were either killed or had one of their body parts cut off. Also, one of the
rules stated that if a woman died, her daughter had to be killed. Men really
were Hierarchies.
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