The Prisons of the Ancient Worlds
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This 7 page research paper looks at the 'prisons' of ancient biblical lands - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, lands of the New and Old Testament. Rather than physical structures to keep people incarcerated, 'prisons' were primarily slavery, banishment, or death. Bibliography lists ten sources.
Filename: Ancpris.wps

Ancient Laws / Deific Codification
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A 10 page research overview of Mesopotamian, Spartan, and Hebraic Law, and the Code of Hammurabi. The writer argues that the ancient laws were directed toward commerce and social control, but were most often based on reference to religious deities. The writer provides examples of the laws and the rulers that created or enforced the laws. Bibliography lists 13 references.
Filename: Ancients.wps

Code of Hammurabi / Crime, Health & Politics
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A 6 page research paper on the extent of the oldest 'secular' legal code in history. The writer briefly touches on the Babylonian civilization, King Hammurabi, and discusses the intricacies of the code in regards to crime, medicine, and business. The paper states that the code was the prede cessor to Greek code, which is given credit for being the predecessor of legal code in today's society, but posits that the difference is that the Hammurabi code was the first functional set of laws looking out for the interests of all citizens. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Hamurab.wps

(The) Etruscans
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An 11 page report on the history, politics, economics, language, and art of the Etruscans - members of an ancient Western Civilization that flourished during the 1st millennium B.C. Bibliography lists 7+ sources.
Filename: Etrusca2.wps

“Henges in southern Britain”
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A paper which looks at henges and other ancient monuments in Britain and considers what can be deduced about Bronze Age people and social organisation from investigation into the construction of the monuments and the archaeological finds made at digs at related sites, such as the long and round barrow burial mounds associated with these sites.
Filename: JLhenges.wps

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