What odd laws existed before christ

1. When Fighting Another Man, Chop Off His Wife's Hand If She Grabs Your Genitals

2. Women Suspected of Adultery Have to Drink Dirty Water

3. If Your Slave Refuses Freedom, Pierce Their Ear

4. Don't Sit Where a Menstruating Woman Has Sat

5. Don't Wear Clothes Made of Both Linen and Wool

6. You Can't Kill a Burglar During the Day

7. Never Boil a Baby Goat in Its Mother's Milk

8. Don't Tear Your Clothes

9. Don't Plant More Than One Kind of Seed in a Field

10. Don't Eat Fat

11. Don't Eat Owls

12. Don't Speak the Names of Other Gods

13. Make Sure No One Falls Off Your Roof

14. You Have to Leave Fallen Grapes on the Ground for the Poor to Eat

15. You Can't Leave Open Pits Around for Animals to Fall Into

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

1. explain aspects of the democratic process as it was developed in ancient athens

2. trace the roots of the americans political process to ancient athens

3. explain the relationship of citizens to the political process