Hammurabi's Code

Recently in Humanities, my class discussed "Hammurabi's Code," which was his version of laws. I think that these laws were unfair and unjust, because he made laws that applied no matter who was at fault. For example, if a son struck his father, one of his hands had to be cut off. This rule would apply even if the father should have been struck by the son for the boy's safety or others'. I think that there should be rules, but ones that are flexible so that only the guilty party would be prosecuted. but I think that it was wise for Hammurabi to enforce some-kind of laws that could be protective to the citizens of his city-state (Babylon).

I think that other civilizations have laws because the government wants to protect the people, the land, the animals, the culture, the religion, and any other thing that were unique to the region. Even thought they might momentarily cause trouble and hardships for the citizens, they would protect other citizens and other things that the government wishes to protect. That is why there are laws about how many animals can be hunted or caught a season, or why there are traffic rules. They protect the region in which the people live. Even a bad ruler (government) is better than no ruler (government) at all. And if you obey the laws, then you have nothing to fear from the government. Only if you disobey the laws do you have to worry. Laws are beneficial for the protection of the civilization(s).

Wordle

Recently in health, my class has been talking about bullying. For our unit project, our class had to write short booklets as if we were part of a bullying situation. Then we had finished our work, we could go onto "Wordle," and mess around. I decided to use the text from my bullying. I also did another one, and it is titled "Julie's Main Problem and Solution."

Domestic Animals Are The Key To Growth Of Tecnology PART: 2

Was there any questions that you may have had? Any challenges?
Can you ....well, sum up what you're saying into two sentences?
-Mr. McQueen

I wonder when the people started to live in permanent homes, because it doesn't happen over night. It must have happened slowly over years, with semi-permanent home, all the way to totally permanent houses. It could have even happened over generations, or only one or two. But how long did it really take? There is a lot of things that we don't know about the Sumerian lifestyle. 

Some of the main things that we know about their life was that domestic animals improved the lives and diet of men. One of the only places that was not affected by the help of these animals was Papua New Guinea. 

Domestic Animals Are the Key to Growth of Technology

Recently in Humanities class, we watch part of a movie based on a book called "Guns, Germs, & Steel." We learned a lot about what the people lived like about 13 thousand years ago, and what they did about their blockage. First of all, the people had to travel with the seasons. Meaning that in winter, they went south, like birds. They also had to follow wherever the game went, so that they were able to continue feeding themselves and the others in their group. They traveled in small groups, probably so that there would be less mouths to feed, but enough that there were many to hunt and track an animal. They would live in caves, for weeks or months at a time.

Once the people realized their problem, they converted from hunting daily or weekly to gathering. No one really knows how long it took the people to successfully turn their hunting moving life of hunting into a permeant house for gathering.

One of the foods that the people ate was sago, a tree. They would cut at the surface of the tree and get to the pulp at the center. This was their "food." The only problems were that sago didn't produce enough calories to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and was very low on protein. It also could not be stored, so they had to gather in small amounts so that it would not go bad. One of the only good things about eating sago versus hunting is that even though it was physically harder, it ended much more successfully.

The people must have realized their problem, but what was the answer? Finally, some one found cereals, like barley and grain. They had a profound impact on some one's health, and was able to be stored for years, meaning less work in the cold months of winter.

Another way that the people went around their problem, was by raising domestic animals. Especially animals like goats. Their milk was good for protein, their fur for making clothes warmer, and their meat for eating when food was scarce. 

There are some places where domestic animals never helped to inhabitants. Such as Papa New Guinea. Their diet was very bad, and was low on protean. So to solve this problem, they some times resorted to eating giant spiders! Because there were no animals of burden, the people spent their time finding and gathering food. 

Domestic animals helped in ways that are amazing other than meat, fur, and milk, some animals are strong enough to carry a yolk to help with the field work. When they helped with the work, people didn't need to work as hard for what they needed, providing more free time for people to develop special talents for certain things. Such as weaving, metal work, or stone work. People even started designing and decorating their own houses. 

This shows that having animals help you advance with the production of good, healthy food, assisted the growth of specialties and tools, which could also be called technology.