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The Babylonians

The Babylonians . The Babylonians Code of Hammurabi Babylonian Civilization The Downfall of Babylon. Babylon. The Old Babylonian Period High point was reign of King Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.) united all of Mesopotamia through conquest

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The Babylonians

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  1. The Babylonians The Babylonians Code of Hammurabi Babylonian Civilization The Downfall of Babylon

  2. Babylon • The Old Babylonian Period • High point was reign of King Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.) united all of Mesopotamia through conquest • During reign government controlled economy and passed comprehensive laws called the Hammurabi Code

  3. Hammurabi Code • Code reinforced “An eye for an eye” mentality • Laws focused on property rights, slaves, children and women’s rights, murder, theft and marriage • Punishment differed based on a person’s social class

  4. Hammurabi Code • Laws were introduced for two main reasons • To establish order in a land in constant conflict • To represent a king’s beliefs of justice • Several laws were written to protect the poor and powerless from abuse

  5. Hammurabi Code • 5. If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement. • 6. If any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death. • 14. If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death. • 22. If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.

  6. 195. If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off. 197. If he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken. 202. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public. 218. If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off. 219. If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the slave with another slave. 282. If a slave say to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear. Hammurabi Code

  7. Babylonian Mathematics • Babylonians used advance mathematics like algebra and geometry • They used linear and quadratic equations • Adopted Sumerian mathematics because it was sound • Studied and made observations of natural phenomena

  8. Downfall of Babylon • 1595 B.C. Hittites invaded Babylon and conqueror it • Hittites introduced international commerce by trading in the Mediterranean region • Modified Hammubria Code and made it more lenient • A large tribe called Kassites seized Mesopotamia (Babylon) because region hard to protect

  9. Downfall of Babylon • During rule of Kassites, Babylon saw a period of no growth • Adopted ziggurat, cuneiform and Laws of Hammubria • Period of famines, disease and nomadic invasions plagued Babylon • Kassites will not hold Babylon as well and it falls to the Assyrians

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