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I think rules with consequences are far more effective than rules without consequences because what if someone was driving a car and the light turned yellow, and they just kept going. Then, the light turns red and he still keeps going and then runs into someone! Without consequences, people might be doing that all the time because they know nothing will happen to them even if they do it 3 times a day until they get seriously injured, or maybe even die!

I think that it does depend on the consequence because somebody might do something terrible, and would only have a very small consequence so he might keep doing it, because he knows that he wouldn’t get in that much trouble! In that case, stricter consequences should be used for people who do things terrible, and the people who only go 70 mph when the speed limit is 65.

But, not all people need rules with consequences because they know that there will be a consequence. For instance, if I was watching T.V. or playing a computer game right now while I know I’m supposed to be typing this, my parents could find out by looking at the computers history, or if the T.V. remotes were in a different place or position as they were before they left.

In classrooms, I think most of the students behave enough to be able to monitor themselves, while the other percentage of the class, couldn’t. I don’t think that it’s fair to the students who can behave themselves to have strict rules and consequences because they didn’t do anything wrong, the misbehaving students did.

If there were a case, in which the teacher wasn’t there and we had to do many pages of work (which will never happen) I’m pretty sure that I would do well the first couple of pages, but then, the misbehaving students would realize the teacher isn’t there and they think they can do whatever they want, so they would start to scream and yell and get out of there seats and run around the classroom, which would cause a chain reaction of distracting everyone, and encourage them to mess around and not do their work either. Then, when the teacher would come back in the classroom, she/he would see everybody messing around, and get them all in trouble, and they would get in trouble because of the 3 or 4 people that were messing around. So, obviously, I think that there should be an adult in the classroom at all times to make sure that the students do their work, and also to help the students to make sure they understand the paper and get it done correctly.


 * 1) Schools. I think there should be rules in all schools as I have already shown.
 * 2) The military. If there wasn’t any rules in the military, we wouldn’t have won any of the wars, which would lead to there not being a United States of America, which would stink.
 * 3) Sports. If there weren’t any rules in sports, what would be the point of playing them? There would also be no referees to flag the other player if they hit you or kicked you or hurt you in any way.
 * 4) Science labs. You especially need rules in science labs because if you didn’t have any, someone could come in, there wouldn’t be any rules, and they would mix-up some liquids in test tubes and before you know it, he could have mixed some liquid up that could blow up the lab which WOULD NOT be good at all!!!

And that is why I think that there should be rules for almost everything.

//“Necessity is the mother of invention.”// --Plato

**__Mesopotamia Notes__** How did the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers support agriculture?
 * Geography
 * Fertile soil
 * Semiarid climate
 * Rivers
 * Fresh water
 * Means of travel

How did climate affect farmers?
 * Unpredictable floods
 * Unpredictable droughts
 * Irrigation

How did Mesopotamians cope with a lack of resources?
 * Mud houses and walls
 * Trade
 * Surplus of grain
 * **Basic Traits of Civilization** ||  **Examples from Sumer**  ||
 * Advance cities || Ziggurats and City States ||
 * Specialized workers || Slaves and women ||
 * Complex institutions || Social classes, Literature-Epic of Gilgamesh ||
 * Record keeping || Picture writing, Cuneiform ||
 * Advanced technology || Early inventions, mathematics ||

What type of community developed in Sumer? Sumerian religion Sumerian society Sumerian science and technology Creation of Written language
 * City states
 * Ziggurats
 * Polytheism
 * ziggurat
 * Social classes
 * Slaves
 * Roles of women
 * Early inventions
 * Mathematics
 * Picture writing
 * Cuneiform
 * Literature- Epic of Gilgamesh
 * Cuneiform
 * Literature- Epic of Gilgamesh
 * Literature- Epic of Gilgamesh


 * Akkadian Empire**
 * Sargon
 * Created world’s first empire (group of many different lands under one ruler)
 * One ruler, one government
 * Encouraged writing
 * Lasted 200 years

He united the land.


 * Babylonians**
 * Hammurabi
 * Code of Laws
 * Justice
 * Rights to people
 * Legacy
 * First time laws existed


 * Assyrians**
 * Ferocious army
 * Set fire to buildings
 * Chariots, battering rams, ladders, tunnels
 * Iron tipped weaponry from Hittites
 * Cavalry
 * Punishment, taxes, moved people to foreign territories once captured (exiled)
 * First libraries by Ashuranipal in Nineveh 20,000 tablets: dictionaries, myths, stories, science, geography, medicine, religion
 * Made many enemies, two enemies (Medes & Chaldeans) joined forces to defeat them

This is the ferocious Assyrian army. They were ruthless. They would burn down villages, put taxes on almost anything and enslave you and your cattle and sheep.
 * Chaldeans**
 * Nebuchadnezzar II- rebuilt Babylon and made Ishtar Gate
 * Ziggurat- Tower of Babel
 * Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Notes: Akkadians: Agade Abandoned boy, Sargon, became the leader. Famous for Sumerian Empires Babylon means gateway of the gods Code of Hammurabi most important artifact from Babylon Hammurabi united the land, agriculture and trading grew Assyrians built some of the earliest canals known as “aqueducts”. Assyrians had strong military Neo-Babylonians skilled in Math and Astronomy.

Little rain fall- canals for flood water town brick-temple ziggurat-tower with big circle ramp cuneiform-first written language epic of Gilgamesh Nebiconezure the II-hanging gardens of Babylon hamurabi-king made first laws 282 of them.

Assyrans were a very violent, ferocious army. They invented the battering ram and after the broke into the place, they burned it to the ground and, if you were lucky, they would take you as a prisoner or a slave.