1. Hammurabi’s Code

2. Discuss the following:
What makes a crime a crime? Who decides?
Why do we have crime and punishment?
Is a system of justice/punishment necessary to make a “civilization”?
What do our current laws say about us a country? As people?

3. King Hammurabi (1792-1750 BCE) 1st King of Babylonian Empire
Complex society at the time required complex laws
Laws were both human and divine
Laws that were written down
Didn’t invent coded law, but his survived

4. Hammurabi’s Code List of legal precedents
Show Babylonian values, beliefs and attitudes
Laws promote welfare of people
Established the idea of presumed innocence
People trust the laws and king because they came from Gods

5. Values (n.)
One’s judgment of what is important in life; a person’s principles or standards of behavior

6. Beliefs:
Mental act, condition or habit of placing trust in another; mental acceptance of and conviction in the truth, actuality or validity of something

7. Settled way of thinking or feeling about something or someone
Attitudes:
Settled way of thinking or feeling about something or someone

8. Comparing Laws Day 1
We will read the introduction on pages together.
Read the questions on page 17, but you DO NOT HAVE TO WRITE OUT ANSWERS FOR THEM.
Read pages (Hammurabi section).
Annotate each law. You should either summarize the law or identify a theme for the types of crime it addresses.

9. Comparing Laws Day 2
Define values, beliefs and attitudes with a personal connection
Fill in the top of the Babylonian values, beliefs and attitudes chart
Carefully read and annotate the Jewish Law section (pgs )
Fill in the section of the Jewish Law values, beliefs and attitude chart for homework