Mesopotamia Lesson 3 Babylonia and Assyria

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the capital of Babylonia; a city of great wealth and luxury

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Babylon

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A Babylonian king who designed a legal code in early Babylon that gave punishment based on crime and social status.

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Hammurabi

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Sumerian-based civilization in Mesopotamia; developed courts and an early codified rule of law - the Code of Hammurabi - "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"

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Babylonia

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A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.

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Code of Hammurabi

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A carved stone pole-like structure, usually set in the center of a city-state, used to mark laws.

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Stele

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What was the purpose of Hammurabi's Code of Laws?

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to preserve law and order

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to set out to defeat another group

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conquest

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King of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC)

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Ashurbanipal

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Assyrian capital city located on the Tigris River was ...

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Nineveh

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King of Babylon who expanded the Babylonian Empire into what was Assyria and ordered massive building projects to make Babylon glorious. He completed the great ziggurat of Ur.

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Nebuchadnezzar II