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Hammurabi’s Code

Hammurabi’s Code. 1700s BCE. Geography Religion Achievements Politics Economics Social Structure. G.R.A.P.E.S. Mesopotamia means “ the land between the rivers”. Located between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. Called the Fertile Crescent. The soil (silt) was very rich and fertile

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Hammurabi’s Code

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  1. Hammurabi’s Code 1700s BCE

  2. Geography Religion Achievements Politics Economics Social Structure G.R.A.P.E.S.

  3. Mesopotamia means “ the land between the rivers”. Located between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. Called the Fertile Crescent. The soil (silt) was very rich and fertile Used irrigation systems and dams in order to settle near the river, grow crops, and develop civilizations.  Geography

  4. Religion of Mesopotamia Polytheistic Nature based gods, and made offerings and animal sacrifices to appease the gods, in hopes that they could influence nature positively Enlil = air god, Enki = water god Kings were demigods (part man, part gods)

  5. Objective: I can identify the impact of Hammurabi’s Code on life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Standard: 6.14 Explain the significant contributions of Mesopotamian leaders, and explain the basic principle of justice in Hammurabi’s Code

  6. Evaluation of Evidence • We must evaluate all evidence • To evaluate evidence, we ask: • Why is a document Useful? • What are its limitations? • What other information do we Need?

  7. Who was Hammurabi? • Member of the Amorite dynasty • King of Babylon from 1792-1750 BCE • United all of Mesopotamia under the Babylonian Empire Relief of Hammurabi and the god Shamash

  8. Hammurabi’s Code • Laws for Babylonian society • Tool to unify expanding empire • “That the strong might not injure the weak” • Allowed everyone to know the Rules

  9. This is what it looked like!

  10. Loss and Unearthing

  11. What can we learn about Babylonia from Hammurabi’s Code? *Use the excerpt from the next slide to establish this* Central Historical Question

  12. 2. If anyone accuses someone else of sorcery, the accused shall leap into the river, and if s/he drowns the accuser shall take possession of the accused's house and belongings. However, if the accused reaches the shore unharmed and the river thus proves that the accused is innocent of the charges, then the accuser shall be put to death, while the one who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house and belongings of the accuser. 117. If anyone fails to repay a debt, and sell himself, his wife, his son, and daughter for money or give them away to forced labor: they shall work for three years in the house of the man who bought them, or the proprietor, and in the fourth year they shall be set free possession of the house and belongings of the accuser. 202. If any one strikes the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public. 226. If a barber cuts off the marking of a slave without the knowledge of his master, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.

  13. 42. If any one take over a field to till it, and obtain no harvest from it, it must be proved that he did no work on the field, and he must deliver grain, just as his neighbor raised, to the owner of the field. 43. If he do not till the field, but let it lie fallow, he shall give grain like his neighbor's to the owner of the field, and the field which he let lie fallow he must plow and sow and return to its owner. 53. If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition . . . if then the dam break and all the fields be flooded, then shall he in whose dam the break occurred be sold for money, and the money shall replace the corn which he has caused to be ruined. 54. If he be not able to replace the corn, then he and his possessions shall be divided among the farmers whose corn he has flooded. 59. If any man, without the knowledge of the owner of a garden, fell a tree in a garden he shall pay half a mina in money.

  14. Summarize laws 42-43 in your own words According to the codes 42-59, do you think most people in Babylonia made money in the cities or in the country?

  15. The Code of Hammurabi established harsh punishments for wrongful acts. The Ten Commandments provided a much stricter form of punishments. The Code of Hammurabi only applied to men of the patrician class. The Ten Commandments prevented violent crimes

  16. All men harsh punishments despite their social status Punishments reflected the divisions within social classes Violent acts were always punished with acts of violence Fines were reserved for the most violent crimes.

  17. EXIT TICKET: Write one fact about life in Babylon that you learned from the documents.

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