Flocab Hammurabi's Code

One reason Hammurabi's Code is famous is that

• it was the most recent set of laws to be recorded in writing

• it was written in a sophisticated code that took years for scholars to translate

• it was one of the first written laws that was on a single, giant stone of polished black basalt or diorite stele

• it was the first set of laws to rhyme, probably to help people remember them

How was Hammurabi's Code displayed?

• Scholars aren't sure, but many believe the laws were kept secret and now enforced.

• The laws were placed so that all people could see them

• The laws were carved into hundreds of different stones and placed along the road to the city

• Nobody knows because the original Code was completely destroyed by invaders.

Which of the following lines come from Hammurabi's Code?

• "A child that swims in the Euphrates shall be killed"

• "No person shall hold meetings in the City at night"

• "If a husband desires to divorce his wife, and dissolve his marriage, he must give a reason for doing so"

• "If a man knocks out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out"

According to Hammurabi's Code, what happens if a man puts out a slave's eye?

• The man must loose his own eye

• The man must trade the slave for one of his own slaves

• The man must be clubbed to death

• The man must pay one-half of the slave's value

Which of the following is a TRUE statement?

• Hammurabi's Code contained 282 brief and strict laws

• Hammurabi's Code contained merciful laws that went against the idea of retribution

• Hammurabi's Code listed all the rights that a person had

• Hammurabi's Code formed the basis of the constitution of the Roman Republic

Rome's Twelve Tables were written down because

• the upper class wanted a legal way to punish their slaves

• the plebeians convinced the Republic's leaders that everyone should know the laws

• the Roman Republic was crumbling and the council wanted to restore order

• the constitution of the Roman Republic needed to be amended

Scholars believe that the Twelve Tables

• rhymed to help people remember them

• listed all the rights a person had

• were destroyed by plebeians in an uprising

• were written on a single eight-foot stone

Which of the following lines come from Rome's Twelve Tables?

• "If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out"

• "If a woman leaves her husband and ruins her house, this woman shall be cast into the water"

• "A dreadfully deformed child shall be killed"

• "If a man knocks out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out"

According to the Twelve Tables, a woman

• becomes a Roman citizen when she reaches adulthood

• is freed from male guardianship when she reaches adulthood

• is considered more intelligent than a man

• remains in the guardianship of a man even as an adult

Which of the following is a FALSE statement?

• The Twelve Tables were destroyed during an invasion of Rome

• The Twelve Tables contained strict laws and harsh penalties

• The Twelve Tables featured an image of the king of Babylon

• The Twelve Tables formed the basis of the constitution of the Roman Republic