Taking Notes pt.2

Today in class, on February 8, we finished taking notes on the chapter we were reading yesterday. Some things I took notes on are: during the reign of Hammurabi the Babylonian empire took over Mesopotamia. Hammurabi's code holds people responsible for their actions. The code sets different punishments for rich, poor, men, and women. For example, the analogy used in the textbook was a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye. The purpose of laws is to promote good behavior but also may be to punish bad behavior. Two centuries later, the weakening Babylonian empire fell to the Kassites and the fertile crescent was conquered by them and other new groups. Assyrians, Phoenicians, and Hebrews adopted the early ideas of Sumerians.