Hammurabi's Code

Concerning Hammurabi's Code- Punishments for breaking the laws were not enforced ___________. Those with a higher standing in society had more protection and options to pay fines instead.

• unequally

• equally

• unjustifiably

• encroached

Hammurabi's Code has been considered _________ in nature to the laws found in the Old Testament.

• different

• opposite

• similar

• supportive

Hammurabi was the King of _____________ from 1792-1750 BCE.

• Sumer

• Akkadian

• Babylon

• Rome

True or False-Hammurabi's Code had an excerpt that states " That the strong may not own the weak"

• True

• False

Hammurabi felt he was given the ____________ to bring righteousness (justice) to the land and destroy the wicked evil doers to protect the weak from the strong.

• power

• authority

• belief

• law

Referring to the impact of Hammurabi's Code on the economy -The _____________ would often fit the crime.

• law

• reasoning

• consequences

• beliefs

Unfortunately the laws concerning forced labor in terms of repaying debts and the conditions upon which marriages could be dissolved were barbaric and completely unfair.

• True

• False

How many laws were in Hammurabi's code?

• 54

• 125

• 282

• 765

What is Hammurabi's Code?

• a story of Babylon's creation

• it is the language of Ancient Sumer

• it is a collection of written laws and rules

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