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10,000 Years in 20 minutes Early Civilization --> Enlightenment Key events to the building of Democracy Coming out of the Ice Age • 10,000 BC world started to warm up. • Man was basically Hunters and Gatherers, lived a nomadic lifestyle. • 7,000 BC introduction of the idea of Agriculture. With this came Surplus of food, calendars, irrigation, specialization of skills, trade, need for protection from invaders) • 5 major civilizations throughout the World: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus River, Yellow River Valley and the Americas. • All Civilizations had same basic characteristics and started in river valleys. Sumerians (one of the first) 3000-900 BC • Mesopotamian city-states were in constant warfare. • Definite class structure. • Babylonians emerged as strongest • 1792 King Hammurabi gave people a code to live by Hammurabi’s Code; 282 laws Hammurabi’s Code is the best preserved legal document reflecting the social structure of Babylon rule. Hammurabi’s Code p 33 Series of decrees to create civil order • “If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician (free man), his eye shall be knocked out.” Eye for an Eye! • If a builder has built a house for a man and the builder has not made the house sound, and the house he has built has fallen and caused death the builder will be put to death”. • Other codes awarded $’s to the victims. • Example of Hammurabi’s code: • How is the truth determined when one man brings an accusation against another? • If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser. Applying Democratic Principles • Which of the democratic principles do you think is best demonstrated with this information? Write a paragraph with supporting details to support your position.