King Hammurabi

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.

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

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.

Whose code had 282 laws?

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

King Hammurabi inherited his title from his father ___________________

• Ashurbanipal
• Nebuchadnezzar II
• Sin-Muballit
• Sargon of Akkad

Which larger kingdoms surrounded the city of Babylon?

• Greece
• Assyria, Mari, Larsa and Eshunna

• Rome
• Egypt

Which kingdom invaded Mesopotamis during the reign of King Hamurrabi?

• Elam
• Sumer
• Babylon
• Assyria

The Elamites conquered the city of _____________ and then came to conquer Babylon.

• Eshunna

• Nineveh
• Ur
• Babylon

Hammurabi's army fought the Elamites without the help of _________

• allies
• archers
• cavalry
• mercenaries