So…Hammurabi’s Code. Colorful!
Because the Kingfisher History Encyclopedia doesn’t go into any detail about Hammurabi’s Code of Laws, we looked it up online. Captain Science has now had a nice lesson on class systems (or “stratified societies,” for some nice vocabulary) and also on the price of one’s privates as determined by one’s social standing. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth wasn’t really making much of an impact on him, but he certainly was impressed at the various penalties for striking someone in the privates in 1700s BCE Babylon. He also learned various definitions for the word “scourge.”
History? Check. Nut shots? Check. Bloody death by whipping? Check. I think my work here is done.
We finished up our exciting Babylonian adventures with the fill-in-the-blank map. With absolutely no prompting, Captain Science chose the rainbow-swirl crayon to fill in Babylon on the map. If that’s not funny to you, well, you’ve probably not seen an episode of Queer as Folk. I assure you, my son hasn’t either. He’s just colorful by nature, just like Hammurabi’s code.
But, the rainbow-swirl crayon has all the colors in it. It’s cooler to color with. Remember the manilla construction paper, that had all the colors in it on a cream colored background? I always chose that one. When the world has so many colors to offer, why stick with just one?