Today we talked more about the code of Hammurabi. And it has really made me question if there rate of people being put in jail or crime rate was as high as ours today. Because then, punishment was a lot higher and made people fear doing things. In today’s world things are much nicer and the government doesn’t hand out as bad of punishment. Then if you killed someone you’d be killed. The phrase a life for a life was used a lot. In today’s world if you kill someone you could get life in jail on parole meaning if you act good you can get out earlier. These punishment is a lot better then death which makes me question in crime and murder rate was as high as ours. I also think if you just looked how they acted then. There were lots of crime going on but it was more to protest for more freedom. Now we don’t commit crime for freedom we commit out of anger or jealousy or physiological thoughts. This also brings the question up on if the world today is more easy and emotional then life hundreds of years ago.
day 8
1) Greco - Roman culture- The mixing of elements of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman culture produced a new culture Pompeii- Roman town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius Virgil- wrote Aeneid-legend of Aeneus; poet Tacitus- historian-presented facts accurately, wrote about good and bad of imperial Rome aqueduct- bring water into cities and towns 2) I think the law would be the best accomplishment because it set up a lot of governments today by giving people the same set of laws as everyone else and giving the people the say. 3) Greco-Roman culture is t he mixing of elements of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman cultures. 4) The Greeks were known for beautiful but idealized sculpture; Roman sculptors created more realistic works. 5) It forms the basis for Western languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian; more than half of English words have a basis in Latin.
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