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3.Debate: Which matters more in making a society successful: its laws or its language?  It’s almost like asking what’s more important, food, water, or air?  Both are vital to a successful society.  Laws keep order and structure, and allow a society to prosper- perhaps give it the chance to develop a language.  But then again, the laws must be transmitted and enforced intelligibly, and that requires language of some kind.  If it has to be one or the other, I would choose laws, but I think they’re both necessary.   

3.'''Debate: Which matters more in making a society successful: its laws or its language?''' It’s almost like asking what’s more important, food, water, or air?  Both are vital to a successful society.  Laws keep order and structure, and allow a society to prosper- perhaps give it the chance to develop a language.  But then again, the laws must be transmitted and enforced intelligibly, and that requires language of some kind.  If it has to be one or the other, I would choose laws, but I think they’re both necessary.   

4.I just want to comment on how large and successful the cities of ancient times were.  For example, Babylon was larger than San Francisco, and Sumerian/early Mesopotamian cities were modern in all aspects except technology.  When you think “ancient” you think cavemen or savages, but the ancient people were very much just as advanced as we are now.  If they had had the same technology back then as we have now, they would probably have been almost identical to us today.

4.I just want to comment on how large and successful the cities of ancient times were.  For example, Babylon was larger than San Francisco, and Sumerian/early Mesopotamian cities were modern in all aspects except technology.  When you think “ancient” you think cavemen or savages, but the ancient people were very much just as advanced as we are now.  If they had had the same technology back then as we have now, they would probably have been almost identical to us today.