Taking Notes from Our Textbook

Today in class we took notes out of the textbook for chapter 2, Early River Valleys. The four of them are Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and Indus Valley. Mesopotamia is located along the Fertile Crescent and bordered by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The rivers flooded at least once a year and left silt on the land. The silt was really good for farming. Hammurabi's code was a code of punishment for crimes. The example used in the book was that if someone were to steal a pig they would have the option of either paying back the amount of a few pigs or getting a death penalty. This code is what led us to our current legal system. We also talked a little bit about current laws and what we thought about them and how fair we thought they were. We tried to come up with some fair law systems but it didn't work very well because we didn't get any further than Belle wanting to kill everyone.