Mesopotamia and Hammurabi's Code

Today in class we saw 2 more slides in the powerpoint. We talked about how the Sumerians created the concept of time and the Ziggurats they constructed. Then we talked about the Civilization in Mesopotamia. There were still wandering nomads that drove herds of domesticated animals in many areas. Then we talked about Hammurabi's Code. It's based on "an eye for an eye." Then we looked uptake laws on Hammurabi's Code. A lot of the punishments resulted in death. I found one that said if a builder of a house constructs it poorly and it falls in on the owner of the house and kills him, then the builder gets put to death. Some punishments include removing your tongue, ear, eye, teeth. I'm glad that I don't live in that time period because it seems like some of the punishments are kind of harsh. If my parents did something wrong that could lead to my own death. There would be a lot of deaths in our world today if we all lived by these laws. That's all for today.