Sargon and Hammurabi

Why was Hammurabi's code important?

• Separate rules for each City State.

• Set up Religious rules.

• Treated all social classes equally.

• First written laws for an entire empire.

Which statement is true about Hammurabi's code?

• People of different social classes are treated differently.

• Punishments were only payment of fines.

• Adults were less valuable than children.

• All people were treated equally.

How did Sargon govern his Empire?

• Placed people he trusted in high government positions.

• made everyone speak Babylonian.

• Made a written code.

• Used farmers to protect his palace.

What City was the center of Hammurabi's Empire?

• Lagash

• Ur

• Babylon

• Umma

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.

Akki, the king's gardener, found Sargon in the basket in the river and raised him as his own. To what position did Sargon rise?

• Cup bearer

• Court jester

• King's gardener

• Court musician

What is the name of the city that Sargon built?

• Lugalzage-City

• Nippur

• Akkad

• Uruk

• Kish

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

Over which of the following groups was Sargon the ruler?

• Akkadians
• Babylonians
• Egyptians
• Assyrians