Today is Valentine's Day. We continued taking notes from the powerpoint and had a debate about paying for people in jail. In Mesopotamia, Sumerian gods represented nature. The world's first surviving story was the Sumerians "Epic of Gilgamesh." A ziggurat is a big temple/city hall in a city state. The wondering nomad's drove herds of animals. Sumer was conquered by Akkadians in 2350 B.C. King Hammurabi creates serious laws that they must follow called "Hammurabi's Code."
Today we watched a video called "Guns, Germs, and Steel". The main guy in the video was Jared Diamond who is a professor at UCLA, a biologist, an author, and is passionate in the study of birds. He traveled to Papua, New Guinea to learn what it was like to live there. People have lived in Papua for over 40,000 years with a similar life style. Cargo stands for there material goods. Pre-historical times (about 13,000 years ago) everyone was a hunter or gatherer. Sago- staple food that comes from trees. Barley + wheat were main crops.
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