CLA160H1 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 - Mesopotamia
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Hammurabi"s law code: penalties for killing someone"s daughter: if an equal"s daughter, your daughter is killed, if a commoner"s, pay mina, if a slave"s, 1/3 mina. Bp = before present: non-religious, though not practical (would change every year) Ad/ce (in the year of our lord; common era) cf. Greek olympiads, roman consuls: olympiad = 4 year period, consuls = 2 consuls who were in charge for a particular year position held for one year only. *throughout history, there have been multiple methods of measuring time. Big picture home sapiens: kind of human, been around for 100,000 years, only about 10% of their existence have been during the time of the agricultural revolution agricultural revolution took place during the neolithic period/9k bc. Civilization after agricultural revolution, humans are able to cultivate plants and domesticate animals: leads them to become non-nomadic and as such being to own property/buildings/cities [ca.
