Hammurabi's Code

Who was Hammurabi? 

• Hammurabi was a God in Ancient Sumer
• Hammurabi was the King of Babylon
• Hammurabi was a warrior
• Hammurabi was a farmer in Mesopotamia

Hammurabi's Code was composed of how many laws?

• 282
• 192
• 292
• 495

Who did Hammurabi claim encouraged him to create the laws?

• The people of Babylon
• The Gods
• The Akkadians
• The summerians 

How did Hammurabi come to rule over all of Mesopotamia? 

• He was the king of Babylon
• His father left him the land 
• He conquered and united all of Mesopotamia
• He asked politely 

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 knocked 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.

Which of the following is  NOT true of Hammurabi's code?

• It covered many aspects of Babylonian life, not just crimes.
• it was used by many later civilizations as a model
• It treated all people the same under the law.
• It was carved in stone.

A kind of writing used in Sumer and Babylonia is called

• handwriting
• cursive
• cuneiform
• graffiti

One reason Hammurabi's code is famous is that

• it was the first set of laws recorded in writing

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

• it was beautifully written on a single giant stone of polished basalt

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

Which of the following was a goal of Hammurabi's Code?

• To protect the weak from the strong

• To punish people as harshly as possible

• To make sure the gods were respected

• To make sure Ziggurats were built properly

Accord to the Code, how important was farming to Mesopotamian Society?

• Extremely Important

• Somewhat Important

• It was meh

• Wasn't important at all