Background Essay: Hamuurabi's Code

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Which word belongs in the #1 space?

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Focus on the yellow part. We need to take the idea "We know little" and turn it into "We __ know much about..." What word works best?

• don't

• do

• almost

• already

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finishing this idea...who is this text talking about? (this will go in the #1 space)

• Hammurabi's

• Sargon's

• Mesopotamia's

• Babylon's

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focus on the details listed in the purple area: Which word works best to fill in the blank (#1) while still reflecting those details?

• information

• life

• period

• description

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Which idea from the text reflect the fact that Hammurabi was a great warrior?

• orange: "military campaigns"

• blue: "dealings with surrounding city-states"

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Was a good communicator and could ​

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with ​

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peoples easily

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How did Hammurabi expand his control beyond Babylon?

• By victories over Larsa and Mari

• By signing peace treaties

• By building irrigation canals

• By trading with neighboring kingdoms

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Tablets were how they ​

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their ​

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focus on the green: What is another way to say "Hammurabi's control"? When we talk about someone being a leader or ruling a country, we say "his

".

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focus on the yellow: What is another way to say "With victories over"? If he was victorious over other kingdoms, what did he do to them?

• conquered

• allied with

• migrated to

• surrendered

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focus on the orange: What is another way to say "ruler of much of Mesopotamia"? We need to fill in this blank: Now he rules ___ of Mesopotamia?

• most

• all

• some

• none

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focus on the pink (but it's kind of another way to say the yellow + orange): "After ​

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the Babylonian Kingdom,"

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now focus on the blue: If most of his subjects were farmers, what would be important to them?

• farming

• fighting

• praying

• serving

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focus on the green (you should see a pattern from the last time it said "After ___ the Babylonian Kingdom" in our notes): What word will give us the same idea as "After his victories at Larsa and Mari" ?

• expanding

• consolidating

• bringing together

• questioning

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focus on the yellow: What word will give us the same idea as "Hammurabi's thoughts"? If you are thinking about something, what are you doing? Hammurabi started to ___ on how to keep...

• focus

• doubt

• hope

• distrust

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Hammurabi started to focus on how to keep the ​

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among his people. These thoughts of ​

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soon led to the idea of ​

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(or fairness) for his people.

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Why might Hammurabi have placed several copies of these laws all around the kingdom?

• This was to allow everyone to see the laws, so they know what they are and can follow them

• This was to allow only the rich to see the laws, so they could avoid punishments

• This was to allow only the king to see the laws, so he could enforce them

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If Hammurabi's Code was the "most complete," what would that mean for the people studying it?

• It had the most details

• It was the largest in size

• It is the only one to have survived

• It impacted the most amount of people

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⇒ By studying these laws, historians know what ___ was like in Babylon during this time.

• life

• leadership

• jail

• church

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Match the highlighted ideas to the correct blank in the notes​

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and Family Life

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structures

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(Buying & Selling Stuff)

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Which word goes in the space for #2? (hint: it's an example of a everyday problem -- fights between ___)

• farm

• neighbors

• family

• crops

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Three Social ___

• Classes

• Levels

• Structures

• Groups

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What are the three social classes?

• Land owners

• Free People

• Slaves

• Students

• Working Class

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⇒ ​

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show that Hammurabi tried to successfully ​

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and manage his 1 million people.  He also wanted to make sure ​

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was treated ​

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under the ​

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.

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⇒ You will look at ​

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documents about ​

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Code of Laws. 

⇒ You will ​

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if these laws were ​

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and cruel or if they were ​

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and fair.

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Were they ​

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for the ​

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based on the ​

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they committed?

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Were they ​

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for the ​

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of the crime?

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Would they keep society ​

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and secure?