2/15/19

• Sumer was conquered by the Akkadians c. 2350 BC-- their gods took place of previous gods and all Sumerians were forced to worship them
• King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws known as "Hammurabi's Code" with laws that included "and eye for an eye" ideology and other laws regarding, marriage, murder, theft, and other crimes
• Indo-Europeans were people from the grasslands of the Russian steppe who introduced the horses to the Near East
• the Hittites had a lucrative trade in metals and conquered nearly all of their neighbors, even threatening Egypt
• we had a long conversation about language and how people just know cuneiform like its no big deal or something but it is because people just
• looked
• at a cuneiform slate or something and
• they just knew?????
• but I think I get it now 
• also I impulsively signed up for track so in the future I may be missing some class for track stuff