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Babylonia

Babylonia. September 19, 2012. The Babylonians. Conquered Sumer and surrounding areas, established a huge empire . Most significant ruler was King Hammurabi Hammurabi’s reign considered the Golden Age of Babylon

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Babylonia

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  1. Babylonia September 19, 2012

  2. The Babylonians • Conquered Sumer and surrounding areas, established a huge empire. • Most significant ruler was King Hammurabi • Hammurabi’s reign considered the Golden Age of Babylon • Upon Hammurabi’s death Babylonians lost their power and the area was again divided into small city-states.

  3. The Code of Hammurabi • World’s first instance of codified law • Inscribed on a stele • Contained 282 laws • Placed in public, in the Temple of Marduk • Now in the Louvre, in Paris

  4. Hammurabi’s Code • Key Concepts • Retribution • Restitution • Corporal Punishment • Capital Punishment • Which laws seem too harsh? • Which ones seem reasonable?

  5. If a "sister of god" (nun) who is not living in a convent opens a wine shop or enters a wine shop for a drink, they shall burn that woman. • If bad characters gather in the house of a wine seller and she does not arrest those characters and bring them to the palace, that wine seller shall be put to death. • If a man put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value. • If any one open his ditches to water his crop, but is careless, and the water flood the field of his neighbor, then he shall pay his neighbor corn for his loss.

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