Well hi there. I'm Randy and currently taking the Middle East Studies class with Liz. So far what we have been learning about was Mesopotamia. One of the papers that we read was the epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh was this jerk of a king who enjoyed to kill his people. So the gods sent out a beast named Enkidu to fight with Gilgamesh. They fought for 7 days. After that they became best of friends. Once Enkidu died, Gilgamesh became a nice king because the death of his best friend made him sad. So in a way the death of Enkidu was like the death of his bad side. we currently just started learning about the Islam religion. This was started by the profit named Muhammad. Before this tho we learned about the Hammurabi law. Some of the laws were a bit ridiculous, such as 128: if a seignior [a lord or a man of property] acquired a wife, but did not draw up the contracts for her, that women is no wife. The other laws we went over were along the same lines as this.