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Warm-up Activity: Get out a blank piece of paper Write your name at the top Reread the letter that complains about the gardeners. You can find this letter on page 8 of your reading packet at the top of the page. 1. Write a law that relates to the gardeners who stole the dates. 2. What should be their punishment? 3. What should happen to the people who didn’t tell about the theft? Turn this in on the front table Pick up a note sheet and complete the vocabulary section… use your reading packet to help Fertile Crescent Unit 3 Legacy of Mesopotamia Section 3 Jordan Cotten 6th Grade Social Studies Vocabulary Code ___________ = organized list of laws or rules Cuneiform = form of writing that uses ___________ groups of wedges and lines; used to write several languages of the Fertile Crescent King Hammurabi Hailed from Babylonia Ruled from 1792 B.C. – 1750 B.C. Died 1750 B.C. Very successful leader Won numerous conquests throughout Mesopotamia Hammurabi’s Code First code of laws _________ written down Believed laws should apply fairly Instructed Babylonians how to settle conflicts in all areas of life 282 laws organized into categories Trade, labor, property, family, adopting children, practicing medicine, hiring wagons or boats, controlling dangerous animals, etc. Stela = stone slab Clay Tablet I got to see it…. “eye for an eye” A man who blinded another person would have his eye pulled out. Not equal for everyone Refer to page 6 in reading packet Read the passage at the beginning of section What does this mean? “If a man destroyed the eye of a man of the class of gentlemen, they shall destroy his eye. If he has broken a gentleman’s bone, they shall break his bone. If he has destroyed the eye of a commoner or broken a bone of a commoner, he shall pay one mina of silver. If he has destroyed the eye of a gentleman’s slave, or broken a bone of a gentleman’s slave, he shall pay half [the slave’s] price. If a gentleman, they shall cut off [the slave’s] ear.” What about women? Women were to be obedient to husbands and fathers A man could sell his wife or children into slavery to pay off a debt. Not So Equal… Higher class victim = harsher penalty Accidentally breaking rules just as guilty as someone doing it on purpose Ex: “If a surgeon performed a major operation on a citizen with a bronze lancet [knife] and has caused the death of this citizen…his hand shall be cut off.” Why was Hammurabi’s Code so important? They were written down Everyone knew the rules Everyone knew the punishments Activity: Hammurabi’s Code In groups of 3: Read each scenario from Hammurabi’s Code Write what you think would/should happen for each one 5 minutes to complete Get your group laptop when you are done Log onto laptops Activity Continued: Hammurabi’s Code Go to www.rock.k12.nc.us At the top, click on down arrow and select Rockingham County Middle School Click on Staff Websites Click on Mrs. Cotten’s website Click on the link for Hammurabi’s Code under Daily Updates Compare your answers on your paper to what King Hammurabi really did Explore the site and learn more about the harshness of his Code http://www.phillipmartin.info/hammurabi/hammurabi_situation_index.htm Debate: The People Vs. King Hammurabi Debate: Continued Read about King Hammurabi and his Code Argue on behalf of Hammurabi Argue on behalf of poor people/slaves Prepare your arguments as a group Be ready to defend your position and also illustrate how your opposition’s reasons are “wrong” Journal Entry Title: Writing Date: Today’s Date Answer the following in a minimum of 10 sentences 15 minutes to complete How different would our lives be without writing? Consider how little we would know about the achievements and mistakes of people in history. How would we communicate over long distances, keep records, or understand the laws of our country? What would day-to-day life be like? The Art of Writing Developed 3500 B.C. Sumerians began writing Sumerians kept records Record keepers VERY important Very few writers Positions held by ________ scribes I got to see this… What did the scribes do? Recorded: Sales and trade Tax payments Gifts for the gods Marriages Deaths Calculated military supplies and food Calculated need for workers on government projects “Pages” of Hard Clay Scribes wrote on clay Provided by Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Shaped soft, wet clay into tablets Used a stylus to mark in wet clay Set clay out in sun to dry Made permanent record What’s in a shape? Shape and size of tablet depended on purpose: Large = reference Small = letters or postcards, personal messages Letter about gardeners From Pictures to Writing… Writing developed over time People drew pictures… each important object would have its own symbol Symbols changed over time Scribes combined symbols to make wedges and lines known as cuneiform Cuneiform used to represent different languages… very useful in a land of many peoples Shows how pictures turned into words (symbols) over time HEAD Try These: http://www.penn.museum/cgi/cuneiform.cgi http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~scmarkve/2910Su11/Wr Sys/evolofcuneiform3100-600BC.htm