Hammurabi's Code

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Who was Hammurabi?

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Hammurabi was the King of Babylon.

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Hammurabi's Code was composed of how many laws?

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282

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Who did Hammurabi claim encouraged him to create the laws? Options: The people of Babylon, The Gods, The Akkadians, The summerians

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The Gods

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How did Hammurabi come to rule over all of Mesopotamia?

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He conquered and united all of Mesopotamia

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Which statement is best supported by this excerpt from Hammurabi's code of laws? If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.  If he has knocked out the teeth of a plebeian (commoner), he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.

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Law sometimes distinguishes between social classes.

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Which of the following is  NOT true of Hammurabi's code? Options: It covered many aspects of Babylonian life, not just crimes., it was used by many later civilizations as a model, It treated all people the same under the law., It was carved in stone.

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It treated all people the same under the law.

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A kind of writing used in Sumer and Babylonia is called

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cuneiform

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One reason Hammurabi's code is famous is that it was the first set of laws recorded in writing

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it was the first set of laws recorded in writing

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Which of the following was a goal of Hammurabi's Code? To protect the weak from the strong, To punish people as harshly as possible, To make sure the gods were respected, To make sure Ziggurats were built properly

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To protect the weak from the strong

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According to the code, who had equal standing in society?

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Men of equal status