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Blog #12 February 14, 2019

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."

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