Mesopotamia and Hammurabi

Who was Hammurabi? 

• God in Ancient Sumer
• emperor of Babylonian Empire
•  warrior who fought Gilgamesh
• scribe known throughout Mesopotamia

Hammurabi said he wrote this code "to bring about the rule of righteousness  in the land" What word best defines righteousness in this context?

• Kindness
• Justice
• Equality
• Punishment

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

What is Hammurabi's Code?

• story of Babylonian empire's creation by the gods
• written language of Babylonian Empire
•  collection of written laws from the Babylonian Empire
• book describing warfare from the Babylonian Empire

A kind of writing used in Sumer and Babylonia is called

• handwriting
• cursive
• cuneiform
• graffiti

Whose code had 282 laws?

• Samurai's
• Zip
• Hammurabi's
• area

What were the ancient people like in Mesopotamia?

• They were a lot like us. Everyone was treated equally.
• They believed that the gods gave their kings authority.
• They were very unkind and unjust.
• They believed in one god.

Which modern idiom 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.

Hammurabi's code is a famous system of laws because it ...

• is thought to be one of the earliest written set of laws
• led directly to the development of democracy
• had such lenient punishments
• was considered unfair, causing people to rebel in the world's first insurrection

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 nocked out the teeth of a plebeian (commoner), he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver."
--Code of Hammurabi
Which statement is best supported by this excerpt from Hammurabi's code of laws?

• Law sometimes distinguishes between social classes.
• All men are equal under the law.
• Violence must always be punished with violence.
• Fines are preferable to physical punishment.