More notes and Hammurabi's Code

The notes we took today:

• Pantheon- collection of "greats" (like the Hall of Fame)
• Pantheon of Sumerian gods and goddesses emerged, with many of the deities representing the natural elements.
• Christianity- gods and goddesses - God the father, God the son (Jesus Christ), and God the spirit.
• The world's first (surviving) epic was the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh", which told of the great flood.
• Sumerians first divided the hour into sixty minutes, and a minute into sixty seconds; they also organized a calendar based on moon cycles.
• 1st people really marking the time.
• Realized the sun moves in a distinct pattern.
• The Ziggurat - was a Sumerian temple built on top of a "mountain" of earth.
• Ziggurat - a wide building
• CIVILIZATION IN MESOPOTAMIA
• Wandering nomads drove herds of domesticated animals in many areas, especially to the south of Sumer in Arabia.
• King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws known as "Hammurabi's Code."

3 LAWS IN THE HAMMURABI'S CODE:

1. "If any one take a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates, he shall be put to death."

This makes a little sense to me, because no one should be put into slavery, and whoever has a slave against the law should be punished.

2.      "If any one take a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates, he shall be put to death."

This makes a little sense to me, because no one should be put into slavery, and whoever has a slave against the law should be punished.