Myths vs Legends

There are many stories about great heroes and some are called myths and others legends but you never thought about what those two mean. Some people might think there the same but there are similarities and differences. In legends they talk about how the great hero Robin Hood helps people and saves the poor but he didn’t do that although he did exist. Although in a myth the is no evidence or support of anything that happened. Legends happen earthier past time or back in history while myths are in both. Legends have real facts that are exaggerated or disoriented while myths have facts about how events came to be like earth quakes. Most legends talk about heroes but myths talk more about Greek gods and how they get anger at the humans. The Oddesy is a myth since there is no evidence that any of this existed. 

Enheduana of Sumer

Have you ever wonder who was the first author and writer that singed his work.Well in the land of ancient Sumer now modern day Iraq there was a daughter of a great and powerful ruler named Sargon. He was born on farm with a family of farmers but he made his way up to being king, we don't know exactly how. Sargon had two twin sons and a daughter. His sons were named Rimush and Manishtusu. Sargon expected his sons to follow in his foot steps but his sons only had yen to be kings but not the talent. Enheduana was appointed by her father to be a high priestess to the god Nanna the important moon god. To be a high priestess she had to leave her city and go to Ur, one of the most sacred places. There she was given the room all the way on top of the ziggurat, the room closest to the heavens. She preformed many rituals but her most important one was the annual new year. She knew how to write which was really rare for women since only a few men knew how to write. She wrote 42 poems and was famous at her age. She had the potential and talent to be a king but only a man could. When her father died she was kicked from her position and sent to the dessert but she said she will have the last laugh.

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Hammurabie's Laws

A long time ago there was a ancient ruler Hammurabi who ruled over the city called Babylonia, he was the first king of the Babylonian empire. He is best know for his set of rulers called Hammurabis Code that he created and that ran his empire.In this set of codes there were around 280 rulers all written on a giant stone table. These rules can be fair but at the same time not because some of them depend on the social class you are in. These rules are partly fair because most of them follow the rule of  "an eye for an eye", for example if you were to kill someone by bad construction it is clearly stated:" A builder who sells a poorly constructed house that collapsed and kills it owner may be put to death. If the owner's so rather than the owner is killed in the collapse, the builder's son may be put to death." With this rule at first it dose sound fair but we have to take into consideration that if the building is make well but the harsh weather make's it collapse it not necessarily the builders fault. Although some rules are pretty fair like this one:"If, due to crop failure resulting from either a flood or drought, someone is unable to pay interest on the debt, he may be excused from interest payment that year." This rule to me seems pretty fair since you cant control natural disaster. Although some depend on being the right social class." If a person destroys a gentalman's eyes, his eye may be destroy in turn.If he breaks a gentalmens bone, the same bone in the body may be broken.If a person destroy a slaves eye, he has to pay the owner of the slave for damage." As i said before some rules are fair and some are not but one thing that i can conclude is that they were harsh.

A Day In A Life Of A Bronze Age Trader

Aaaaaaa, im so tiered, last night I was playing chess with my friends and didn’t keep track of the time so I didn’t get much sleep and the worst part is I heard that a new merchant is coming to town that sells this so called metal that is the strongest and the best ever made, I think it Is called something like bronze. He is the first one to ever come to this town and sell that I guess that everybody will want to buy it so I might want to make the best offer. On my way to the market I met my good friend Augur, we made a deal that if I get the material that he will trade something for some of it so that both of us could have it. When I arrived I saw this huge crowd of people all shout out items that they own so I guessed that the merchant has come and I pushed myself in the front crowd and shouted out my ring. That caught the merchant’s attention and I saw his eyes move towards my ring I handed it to him and he said that he will give me half a kilo for that ring and took the deal emidietly and got that new material. When I was trying to get home lots of people on the streets were asking would I sell that but I just keep declining their offer even though some of them were really tempting. I finally got home and started to test the metal I tried putting it on a fire but all I did is burn myself then I put it my oven and it melted when I took it out it got really hard and I had a half cylinders of bronze, so with that idea I shaped the bowl into a sword and made a sword that I sold for much more.

Last Human Standing

Have you ever wondered why are we the only human left alive when there was so much more humans that lived the same time we did? Well with extensive research and investigating we found out lots of useful information that helped us answered these questions. We had 20 types of ancestors that we currently found which means we had to live at the same time and at one part of time 4 different types of human lived together. One of the most successful humans apart from us were the neanderthals which lived 400,000 more then we have been living. They had bigger brains then us today but didn't use them fully. The huge change that made us who we are now was 140,000 ago when we at the brink of extinction. It was when a mega drought was happening and in that time we were forced to live at the shore were we couldn't get lots of meat from animals on land, so we had to adapt. One thing that archaeologists found was a pit that had lots of bones along with quartz tools and it is one of the most inaccessible places in the world. In the past it was a open hole in the ground that we think the early humans used as a burial site. Archaeologists found lots of fragments but when they combined them they found about 30 complete skeletons. The place they take the bones to investigate is the center of human evolution which there are only 4 in the world. What we found out from all of this is that the neanderthals had a flat skull which caused the part of the brain for speech to be smaller. One reason we continued living was that we many new tools that we could use unlike the neanderthals that just took rock and a huge piece of wood to kill the animal. We made spears for throwing which made us able to kill a animal while still being a safe distance away but the neanderthals had to come close and risk their lives that why they had short and hard lives. When there was a mega drought we when to the shores and lived in caves and we think that all of us descended from 600 individuals but that's only a idea. We adapted in the way that we started eating fish and clams that when the waves were low we could gather. In that time period we developed art and culture. One interesting face is that we pushed the neanderthals out of their area. We will one day find out all the detail but until then we are still evolving.

"Last Human Standing." Becoming Human. PBS NOVA. 31 Aug. 2011. Television.

From Grunts to Grammer

There is one question that still troubles scientists and that is when we started to use complex language. Language is constantly changing and even today its s going through its own little evolution. It is obvious that language is the product of the need for socialization. So we can roughly conclude that the first traces of language appeared over the first camp fire, and slowly evolved from grunts to complex sentences. Dr. Jeffrey Laitman was the first one to conclude that homo Habilis, the earliest human might have been communicating because there is evidence that parts of the brain that were required for speech were present in them. For speech we need a larynx also known as voice box to make sounds and sometime in the past our voice box went lower in our throat so that we could make sounds but for the animals it stayed high up. Some scientist assumed that our voice box subsided when we needed more air to hunt prey. In the past we hunted by using persistent hunting and it is when they chase a animal until it can’t run and gives up. The extra need for air made our voice box lower so that we can breathe through both our nose and mouth. One suggestion to when we started speaking was when we first started to use primitive tools; we needed communication in order to pass on the craft of making tools. Along with migration comes the need to cross the seas and that when scientists think that we started to use more complex language because to make a boat required greater skills. The problem is that we have no solid evidence so we can’t say for sure when it started.

"From grunts to grammar: the evolution of language ." Odyssey: adventure in science Oct. 2009: n. 

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