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.

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