Mesopotamian Empires/Hammurabi Review

Who was Hammurabi?

• He was a god.
• He was a king of the first city of Ur.
• He was the king of the Babylonian empire.
• He was a Mesopotamian scribe.

What is he famous for?

• He was the first to use cuneiform (writing)
• He was the first emperor.
• He had a powerful army.
• He was the first to produce written laws.

What is cuneiform?

• The early letters/symbols.
• An early language of the Babylonians.
• The big black stone where the code was written.
• Hammurabi's language.

How would you describe his laws?

• Fair and balanced.
• Very harsh by our modern standards.
•  Too lenient (easy on the offender)
• complicated

Which modern idiom(expression) refers to Hammurabi's Code?

• An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

• It's raining cats and dogs.

• Break a leg!

• The wisdom of an old man brings wealth.

What did Hammurabi do with the code of laws to make sure everyone knew of them?

• He had scribes write and display them for all to see
• He required fathers to teach the code to their children
• He had teachers make students memorize them
• He required priests to pray them to the gods as worship

According to law 195 in Hammurabi's Code, if a boy strikes his father...

• His father does not care

• The boy must do push ups

• The boy must tend to the crops for a year

• The boy gets his hand cut off

if a man breaks the arm of another man, then...

• He gets his nose broken

• He has to go fishing with the wounded man

• his arm shall be broken

• He has to apologize and buy the man bubble gum

Hammurabi united all of the kingdoms of ...

• Rome

• Mesopotamia

• China

• Egypt

What 2 rivers supported Mesopotamia?

• Nile and Euphrates

• Nile and Colorado

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Tigris and Nile