Today in Western Civ we started class with about half the class asking random things such as asking to get their sweatshirts from their lockers because someone opened the window.  People were also asking to go to the bathroom, asking to go outside, and asking to go home.  After that we took notes on early river civilizations, my notes talk in brief detail about the Tigress and Euphrates rivers, I also took notes on Hammurabi’s Code which was the first set of written down laws that stated that if you stole something you had to pay it back in 30 times what you took.  I also took notes on how the first city states were formed here as well and the surrounding areas took after them.

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