Code of Hammurabi

Who was Hammurabi?

• He was a god.

• He was a king of the Babylonian empire

• He was the king of the Nile

• 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 spoken language of the Babylonians.

• The big black stone where the code was written.

• Hammurabi's language that he spoke.

How would you describe his laws?

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

Hammurabi was the king of?

• Sumer

• Mesopotamia

• England

• Babylon