Assignment on Humanities

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Assignment on Humanities

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Running head: HUMANITIESHumanitiesName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

1HUMANITIESQuestion no 1The progress of the human civilization had been a very elemental need for the humanbeings thousands of years ago (Freud 2015). Some of the things that had been invented in orderto make a progress were very much crucial as well. One of that is the Hammurabi’s code of law.It has been found by the archaeologists that the Code of Hammurabi was printed on the blackstone stele (King 2014). Hammurabi was the sixth king in the dynasty of Babylon. The regioncan be identified as the modern day Iraq. He had made some codes of law which the people ofhis kingdom were supposed to follow. These codes helped the people of the kingdom to get somemoral teachings.However, some harsh punishments have been included this code of law for the people. Itis more a collection of the legal precedents for the people to follow (King 2014). Still, the matterremains important that it had been one of the cruelest codes in the history of mankind.Hammurabi believed that he reigned in the kingdom for his just and pious set of rules. Theselaws are called the ‘laws of retribution’ or ‘an eye for an eye’. A very important aspect has to behighlighted in scenario that the accused people were considered to be as innocent until he wasproven to be guilty (King 2014). This is done still today in the modern days. The reputation ofHammurabi stands as the pioneer in making laws that is an extreme needed in the world. So, thiswas very relevant for the progress of the human civilization.Question no. 2The importance of tracking the timeline for the various historical events has always beena very important thing. The human being shave always been capable of sharing and accountingthe past events. Some new methods and techniques have been invented with the time to track the

2HUMANITIESevents of the past (Glotz 2013). At a point of time, people used to keep the track of time throughthe memories. However, these memories were gone after the death of the human beings. Thesehistories were remembered by the oral tradition. By the advancement of time, this process wasno more evident in case of tracking historical events (Glotz 2013). It has been addressed thatMnemosyne, the Goddess of memory was considered to be the mother of the nine muses inancient Greece. The events were written down in chronicles for preserving it. An example of itwas Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh (Glotz 2013).The Jewish scriptures were also the mediums fortracking time and historical events. The Christian Bible, Holy Koran was all written down and the events were being trackedas per their writing dates. However, the importance of evidence in tracking the time came to beevident in a number of ways. The societies came to be more connected with the people and thiswas very much impressive to track the events by discovering the events that had taken place inthe contemporary period. The remains of those times could be found after the excavation by thearchaeologists (Harris 2014).Question no. 3The question in this part talks about the comparison between the politics of the Confuciangentlemen and the philosopher-king of Plato. The Confucian gentlemen must have some ideasabout the harmonious activities of the human beings. Confucius had described that a gentlemanis not like an implement (El Amine 2012). He described the gentlemen should be able toversatile and he could improve himself with time. He also said that action should always speaklouder than words and he should possess all the necessary knowledge.

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