P RIME T IME Place the following on your desk to be checked later: Venn diagram Printed Egypt packet Turn the Mesopotamia worksheet into the tray (not the packet)

H AMMURABI ’ S C ODE

T HE C ODE OF H AMMURABI Hammurabi was a king of Babylon. Created a large empire. Wrote his laws on huge pillars, put the pillars in the middle of towns (near temples). One of the earliest code of laws in human history.

Where does the law come from? Hammurabi receiving the laws from the Sun God (Anu)

P REAMBLE : Y OU SAY WHY YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING. “ Anu and Ba’al called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak ; so that I should rule over the…people, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind.”

T ASK : P LEASE RECORD YOUR ANSWERS ON THE BACK OF THE PAPER. Your group will be given a set of laws. For each law, do the following: Read out loud. Put the law into your own words. Discuss if you think the law is just or unjust. If just: why do you think so? If unjust: why do you think so and what would be a more fitting law?

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS : L AZY PEOPLE What happens if someone does not maintain the dams and canals on their property, and then the fields of his neighbors are flooded and their grain is destroyed?

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition, and does not so keep it; 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 [grain] which he has caused to be ruined.

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS : D EBT What happens if a man is unable to pay his debts?

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS If a man be in debt and is unable to pay his creditors, then he shall sell his wife, son, or daughter, or bind them over to service. For three years they shall work in the houses of their purchaser or master; in the fourth year they shall be given their freedom..

H IGH STAKES, B UT N OT H EARTLESS If any person owe a debt for a loan, and a storm destroys the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not pay any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year.

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS What happens if someone steals from a temple or ziggurat?

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS : G REED AND LACK OF RESPECT FOR THE GODS If any person steals the property of a temple, then he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS : S LOPPY WORK What should be done to the carpenter who builds a house that falls and kills the owner?

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction sound, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, the builder shall be put to death.

H AMMURABI ’ S SOLUTIONS If it kill the son of the owner, then the son of that builder shall be put to death. If it kill a slave of the owner, then the builder shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS What happens to burglars and thieves ?

T AKING THINGS FROM OTHERS If any person is caught committing a robbery, then he shall be put to death.

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS How is the truth determined when one man brings an accusation against another?

T RIAL BY O RDEAL If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS : D ISRESPECT What should happen to a boy who slaps his father?

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS If a son strike his father, then his hands shall be cut off.

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS What should be done if someone steals or damages a shaduf ? Noooooooo!

H AMMURABI ’ S PROBLEMS If anyone steals or damages a shaduf or a plow, then he shall pay three shekels.

If a man put out the eye of another man, then his eye shall be put out. If he break another man's bone, then his bone shall be broken. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, then his teeth shall be knocked out. If the slave of a freed man strikes a freed man, then his ear shall be cut off.

E GYPT Please read your packet while taking Cornell notes. Due tomorrow. Print off Assyrians packet by Thursday. You will also need the Persians and Romans packets later! Wise Words: Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.