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Date Posted: 09:02:40 02/11/02 Mon
Author: Denise Stone
Subject: Re: Topic 1
In reply to: jack curboy 's message, "Topic 1" on 07:19:10 02/08/02 Fri

If we paid attention to many events in Mesopotamia a lot of things would not have happened.For instance, Hammurabi was able to come up with a code of laws that was the foundation for a government's rules. If we had followed his laws here in the United States then we wouldnt have had so much trouble with crime. Though it may seem horrible that if someone's son is killed by someone in your family then your son must die, it is fair. A life for a life. Now, we are more civilized than that but Hammurabi could have gotten us on the right path instead of having so much trouble coming up with our own rules. Another example could include Assyria's way of simply knocking on your door and saying "Hi, we would like to conquer you." It's a lot easier to do that than to be bombing a country and having innocent people die. If you do it once and do it right then you wont have to do it again. It's not only a faster method,it's also a smarter one! Many wars could have been avoided. This includes world war 1 and 2, September 11th...... if you think about it were talking about thousands of lives that would not be lost.

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[> Re: Topic 1 -- Kristen Berard, 09:04:28 02/11/02 Mon

If history repeats itself because nobody pays attention the first time then alot of things would be different. For example the people of accient mesopotamia took better care of the first scriptures of the bible then now we would easliy be able to prove the bible true, because we would have written proof. If we paid attention to history then we would know to save important documents. Also we would be able to learned more about past cultures. Another instance is how the Assyrians used terror as a weapon. This is still true today, which we know is true from September 11th. If we learned about terror from the Assyrians then we wouldn't have september 11. The assyrians used terror but after a while they we unliked and lost their power. I think that it will happen agian.

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