Western Civ Day #2- Mesopotamia Manual

Today in Western Civ class we went over the next part of the power point that we started today and I thought that today was a lot more fun than yesterday. But the best part was probably when I got to read the summary at the beginning of class. It was my favorite because I got to call Mr. Schick Bob so it was the best. But then we went over a man named Hammurabi so in this blog I have to name three laws that was in his code. He was the first man to come up with a set of laws so I think that was pretty cool but here are three laws:

1.)If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.
2.) If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.
3.) If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.
http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm

Western Civ Day #1- The Interesting Introduction

Today in Western Civ we did an introduction to the course and I thought that it was very similar to the last unit of Human Geo. It was about people who were hunters and gatherers and how they would not be very successful and that the first civilization was Mesopotamia. Then we went over a power point that was made by the company that made the book so we had to take a lot of notes. We had to take a lot of notes because Mr. Schick could not put the power point on his blog because it was not his. Overall it was a very similar unit to the one we did at the end of last semester and I hope that it is because then this entire course will be very easy and I will like that. So I hope that the rest of the course for Western Civ 1 will be exactly or very close to the unit that we are doing now.