Transcript Hammurabi`s Code

Hammurabi's Code
MATERIALS!
“The Human Odyssey”:
Pages 85-87
Student Pages: 80-83
Open the OLS to UNIT 3
LESSON 12
Unit 3, lesson 12 - Hammurabi's Code
A single sovereign nation
with it’s own rules and laws.
A.City-State
B. Empire
PA STANDARDS and OBJECTIVES
 8.4.7.A: Summarize the
social, political, cultural, and
economic contributions of
individuals and groups in
world history.
8.4.7.B: Explain the
importance of historical
documents, artifacts, and
sites which are critical to
world history.
Unit 3, lesson 12 - Hammurabi's Code
 Identify Hammurabi and his
most significant
accomplishment.
 Explain why codification of
law is important.
 Explain the historical
significance of Hammurabi's
principle that "the strong
shall not oppress the weak."
 Analyze primary source
material to recognize the
significance of written law.
Keywords to know
Babylon - City-State on
the Euphrates
Hammurabi - King of
Babylon
Codification - Arranged
or ordered in a systematic
way
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 Ruled the city-state of Babylon during the
18th century B.C
 Babylon was a small city-state but
Hammurabi wanted to change that.
 He became the ruler of a great empire
(page 84 of your textbook)
 As a ruler he was interested in the day-today affairs of his people
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 Assigned officials to rule
for him throughout the
empire.
 Assigned tax collectors to
get money for his
government and projects
 Built temples and canals
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Unit 3, lesson 12 - Hammurabi's Code
Green Check
for fair laws
Red
for harsh, odd, or just plain silly laws
 If anyone opens his ditches to water his crop, but is
careless, and the water floods the field of his neighbor,
then he shall pay his neighbor corn for his loss.
 If a physician kills a patient or cuts out a patient's eye
when trying to remove a tumor, the physicians' hands will
be cut off.
 If a man destroys the eye of another man, his eye shall be
destroyed. If he breaks the bone of another, his bone shall
be broken.
Unit 3, lesson 12 - Hammurabi's Code
Green Check
for fair laws
Red
for harsh, odd, or just plain silly laws
 If a person steals from a temple or takes goods stolen
from the temple, he shall be put to death.
 If a person accuses another person of a crime, the
accused shall go to the river and jump in. If he
drowns, the person who accused him may have the
accused person's house. If the accused doesn't drown,
then the River-God has decided that he is innocent.
The person who made the accusation is to be put to
death, and the accused hall take his house.
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When you are ready to continue!
Unit 3, lesson 12 - Hammurabi's Code
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE?
 Hammurabi’s Code adapted and expanded the laws of his
conquered lands, Sumer and Akkad.
 It was a major step forward for civilization because it
protected the weak from the strong.
 He tried to come up with a ruling for every situation that
could arise.
The first codification of laws
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SITUATION 1
What should be done to the carpenter who
builds a house that falls and kills the owner?
 What’s your decision?
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HAMMURABI SAYS….
 If a builder builds a house and the house collapses and kills
the owner of the house, the builder shall be put to death. If
the house collapses and kills the owner's son, then the son of
the builder shall be put to death
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SITUATION 2
 What happens if a man is unable to pay his debts?
 What is your decision?
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HAMMURABI SAYS…
 If a man be in debt and is unable to pay his creditors, 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.
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“an eye for an eye, a bone for a
bone, a tooth for a tooth”
 This is the core of what the Code of Hammurabi is about.
 For every crime, there is an equal punishment.
 How do you feel about it?
 Do you think the Code is necessary so people are treated fairly?
 Do you think the punishments are too harsh?
 Would you support having the Code or would you be opposed
to the Code
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DON’T PANIC!
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JUST ASK!
 Complete the Unit 3 Lesson
12 Assessment in you OLS
 Read pages 89 to 94 in The
Human Odyssey.
 On Monday, we will look at
Unit 3 Lesson 13:
Nebuchadnezzar Builds.
Unit 3, lesson 12 - Hammurabi's Code
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