Enheduana

 

Leon, Vicki. "Enheduana Of Sumer." Preface. Outrageous Women of Ancient Times. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N.

pag. Print.


Enheduana was the first author to put their name on their tablet that they wrote on. She was a scribe which is someone who could write. They wrote in Cuneiform which was writing on a clay tablet using a tool called a stylus.

                                                 

Enheduana  was the daughter of King Sargon. She was also the sister of two twin boys named Rimush and Manishtusu. They had both became King, but they were both killed.Sargon was raised in a farming family, then he became a cup bearer, and from cup bearer to King, no one knows how that even happened. Enheduana was a very intelligent and motivated person. Her father sent her as a teenager to Ur as a High Priestess. She wrote religious poems, normal poems, and stories. She lived at the top of a Ziggurat so she was closer to the heavens. Enheduana was a very popular author because a long time ago there were not many copies of stories or poems but one of her poems were on over fifty of tablets. After both of Enheduana's twin brothers had died her nephew became King. Enheduana's nephew fired her as a High Priestess and expelled her to the dessert. Her nephew then made his daughter the High Priestess. However now almost nobody knows who her nephew was but everybody knows Enheduana was.

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Landau, Elaine. The Babylonians. N.p.: n.p., 2010. 39-44. Print. Hammurabi's Babylonia.


The start of laws were in Babylon. That was in Mesopotamia. The King who made the first set of rules was named Hammurabi. He wanted justice, or in other words, everything fair. The set of rules that he made was called, "Code of Hammurabi". A lot of his rules were fair for his time, but not for our time, for example, if a builder sells a house and the house kills the owner, then the builder is killed. If the house kills the owners son, then the builders son is killed. I think that for the most part the beginning of this law is fair, but I don't think that the sons dieing is fair. An example of I rule that I think is fair is if a witness lies in court and the person being accused has a death penalty than it is fair if the witness dies. Also if it is about houses the witness that lies would have to pay a fine. A law that I find completely unfair is someone steals another persons slave that persons slave will be killed. Some of the rules they had then are similar to ours such as if your animal attacks someone that the owner would have to pay a big fine. Though a lot of these rules are not fair the rules that Hammurabi made are the bases of all the laws we have now.