Today in Western Civ class my class and I learned about the Saint Valentine and how he had performed secret weddings, because the ruler at the time forbid wedding’s, so valentine would commence the wedding in secrecy.  Valentine was found out about though and was then ordered to be beaten to death with clubs and then beheaded in a public place for his treason against the ruler.  I also learned about some of Hammurabi’s laws one of them was if an adopted child said to their adopted parents that they were not their true parents then that child would have his tongue cut off for speaking out and disrespecting his parents.  Another law stated that if a man were to strike another free man and break his bone or kill him then he shall have the same happen to him, this is where the saying an eye for an eye comes from.

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