Yesterday in Western Civ class we started the class with note
taking, after a few minutes of this though we stared to discuss the notes we
took. We discussed things such as how Sumerian’s
were the first people to have city states. We also discussed about how when the surrounding
river would flood it leave a thing behind known as silt, silt helped out with
farming as it was comprised out of the rivers bedding. The rivers bedding was exceptionally good for
farming because it had fish corpse’s that had decomposed into it, this acted as
a manure for crops and helped with harvesting as helped create a bountiful
harvest from farmers crops. I also
learned about how the Tigris and Euphrates rivers frame Mesopotamia. Also, Hammurabi’s code was the first set of
recorded written down laws, an example of this was if you stole something from
another person you would then have to pay them back 30 times the item you stole’s
worth.
Today in Western Civilization class I witnessed other groups present their Greek Civilization projects, the first group talked about the different governments that were created, they did this by becoming the leaders that created the different governments and discussed it as if it were a meeting and there were sides; I thought that it was a fun and playful twist to the project. The next project was performed by Ben and Will and they did the Olympics, they discussed how they started, the traditions, the events, and even reenacted some of them (they were poorly done), but they were able to get the events for the most part correct and they were also fun to watch how they were performed.
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