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I am not in school...but im pretty sure we took a test and i heard it was really hard.
valentines Day
At the beginning of class we learned the story of St. Valentine. He was a told to go to jail for marring couples even after being warned. He was whacked to death and decapitated. Before he died he left a note for the jail guards daughter, they were close friends while he was an inmate, saying "love Valentine". He was excruciated February 14th and thats why we celebrate this day. It is crazy how we use the day he was whacked to death as a day of love. After we took notes on Mesopotamia ~world first surviving oldest book, Epic of Gigamesh which told of a great flood ~Sumerians were the first to develop time. They made the day off of moon cycles and divided each day into hours, then minutes, then seconds ~The ziggurat was the sumerian temple built on a mountain in the middle of a city state ~Sumerians were conquered by Akkids and forced to believe in new Gods ~Hammurabi was the king of Babylon ~Hammurabi invented the cod of Hammurabi used to keep order. it was a set of la...
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