1. Debrief investigation Hammurabi’s Code
Agenda – 8/24
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Debrief investigation
Hammurabi’s Code
How do law codes show the values of a society?
What can we learn about Babylon from Hammurabi’s Code?
HW: READ! QUIZ ON TUESDAY! NOTES DUE TUESDAY!

2. So – was farming an improvement over foraging?
Or would you all rather be a bunch of foragers right now?

3. HAMMURABI’S CODE Rules are important!
What happens in the absence of them?
Chaos. The purge. Medieval torture.

4. Relief of Hammurabi and the god Shamash
WHO WAS HAMMURABI?
King of Babylon from BCE
United all of Mesopotamia under the Babylonian Empire
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Relief of Hammurabi and the god Shamash

5. Mesopotamia is the “land between two rivers”
Where’s that again?
Mesopotamia is the “land between two rivers”
It’s also called the “Fertile Crescent”
It’s in modern day Syria/Iran/Iraq
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6. Tool to unify expanding empire
HAMMURABI’S CODE
Laws for Babylonian society
First written law code
Tool to unify expanding empire
How?
Created so that “the strong might not injure the weak”
What does this mean?

7. What does it look like?
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8. How do law codes show the values of a society?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How do law codes show the values of a society?
What can we learn about Babylon from Hammurabi’s Code?

9. Step 1: introduce yourself to your group and share your favorite food
Let’s get into groups
Step 1: introduce yourself to your group and share your favorite food

10. Step 2: Read through the Hammurabi’s Code excerpts, grouping them into
Let’s get into groups
Step 2: Read through the Hammurabi’s Code excerpts, grouping them into
Social
Political
Cultural
Economics
Then, answer the questions on the back of the packet!

11. Let’s discuss some laws
2. If anyone 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.
What does this show us?

12. Let’s discuss some laws
22. If anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
What does this show us?

13. Let’s discuss some laws
110. If a "sister of a god" open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death.
What does this show us?

14. Let’s discuss some laws
137. If a man wish to separate from a woman who has borne him children, or from his wife who has borne him children: then he shall give that wife her dowry, and a part of the usufruct of field, garden, and property, so that she can rear her children. When she has brought up her children, a portion of all that is given to the children, equal as that of one son, shall be given to her. She may then marry the man of her heart.
What does this show us?

15. Let’s discuss some laws
196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. [An eye for an eye ] 197. If he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken If he put out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one gold mina If he 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.
What does this show us?

16. Let’s discuss some laws
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.
What does this show us?

17. Let’s discuss some laws
What does this law code show us about Babylonian society?