Hammurabi/Torah Law Codes

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 Hammurabi most famous for?

• He was the first to use cuneiform (writing)
• He was the first emperor.
• He had a powerful army.
• His law code is the earliest law code we have examples of.

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

Which advances did the most to help sustain the growing human population during the Neolithic Era?

• increased scientific knowledge

• improved hunting methods

• new construction techniques

• the development of agriculture

Which statement best explains why early civilizations were located in large river valleys/

• Rivers contributed the resources needed for widespread agriculture to develop.

• River valleys provided the natural obstacles needed to protect against conquest.

• River valleys had the kind of temperate climate that humans are adapted to the best.

• Rivers made it easier for people to travel the long distances needed to trade with others.

Who did Hammurabi claim encouraged him to create the laws?

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

What is monotheism?

• The belief in one God
• The belief in many gods

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.

Hammurabi's Code was written in?

• English

• Cuneiform

• Babylonian

• French

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