Me and World History: Making Connections
Please explain any concept or event you’ve learned about in class so far. Explain how it relates to your own life–either the city you grew up in, a family connection, or how it has shaped your views of your life style.
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I want to talk about Hammurabi’s code. It is the first written law made by Hammurabi who ruled Babylonia. This law is very organized law. This law contained 282 laws organized in different categories. These are common factor with the city where I live, Seoul. However, these two has similar fatal defects, inequality. Nowadays, most issue about our society is law doesn’t work equally to everybody. Not only ancient summers, but many democracy countries have these difficult themes. In movie ‘Twins’ the main character Danny said “Money talks and bullshit walks.” This means money can make everything possible, shows strong materialism. Law doesn’t work same to high-class people compare to low-class. All people should protect by law, there are no differences between people who ride on Mercedes or bicycle to attend their office. To protect human rights, students learn about equality and morality to make better society. Peoples keep working on it and these educations influenced me to live in sense of justice.
As we know, many cultures and invints was making a great affection for the contempotary civilizations. For instance, in the mesopotamia plain, the cuneiform was the first writing system developed in the world in about 3500 BC. The people used wet clay tablets and used sharp reeds to scratch the records onto the tablets. The tablet would dry becoming a permanent record. However, not everyone could read or write ,therefore, official scribes had that duty. Scribes became importantfor people,since even kelp all the record,which was a precise resources. Along with the time passing, the cumeiform are developed into the symbols we are really familar with. In another word, the cuniform become the basic of the modern words.
About baiyang ji’s comment.
1. How did your country’s language begin?
2. What kind of similarities your country’s language share with cunia form.
3. Which languages got influenced by cuniaform?
4. What is your country’s name in your language?
5. How does cuniaform related to mordern languages?