This section was vaguely covered in class, but the two main things that I took away from it were law in tribes and bands and socialism. Law in the tribes and bands were more basic human nature laws, but did hold some intelligence in actually starting the Law system in the world. Some of the things that bands and tribes did practice though were highly brutal such as blood feuds where one family member would be killed so that family would kill a member of the family they thought killed their family member. This would go back and forth until someone stopped it or the family's were wiped out. If you look at the picture above of a rap battle where two rappers make fun of each other back and forth is actually a form of law in early tribes. Tribes practiced insulting one another and who ever one won the argument and that's how civil law was in early humanity. However banishment and punishment for the guilty really started the law system in tribes and bands. Its amazing how even the first humans had law in bedded in them.
Socialism is actually quite a harsh system. It relies on a low tolerance crime system. In words this system is quite good because after some time the people of a country will fear their leaders and law will not be needed anymore or they could overrun the government. The only problem with this system is that the leaders made laws that would benefit themselves not the people. Therefor it was really just a system to get things that the rulers wanted and in my opinion too harsh of a system for a people to handle.
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I graded 12&13. Well done on 12. I thought you could have reflected more on 13.
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