third day of western civilization

Today in class, we continued our notes from yesterday. I took some extra notes on Sumar, originally an area with furtile soil. I found it interesting that once the people learned about farming, they overfarmed sumar. Then sumar became desert. Now the area that was once Sumar is used for oil production. Once we finished taking notes, we looked up some of the laws that comprise Hammarabi's code. The class was shocked by how brutal the punishments were, however I was not. 200 years ago, the united states had slavery, and even more recent women were just gaining the right to vote. If things change that durrastically in 200 years,  imagine how terrible conditions were for some people thousands of years ago. Some of tthe laws were obsured, like if a woman cheated on her husband, she and the other man would be tied to eachother and put in the river  to drown.