Ancient Codes
Name the Sumerian legal code often considered the oldest surviving legal code.
What is the Code of Ur-Nammu?
Which type of slavery treats a person as personal property who can be bought and sold and whose children inherit the status?
What is chattel slavery?
Who was the Persian ruler credited with the Cyrus Cylinder and allowing Israelites to return home?
Who is Cyrus the Great?
According to the UN definition quoted in the unit, human rights are inherent to all people regardless of what? Choose the best:
(A) age
(B) race
(C) favorite food
(D) hair color
What is B- race?
Which modern event in the unit's links is associated with LGBTQ+ activism?
What is Stonewall Riots?
Which Babylonian king created a famous code of laws known for the principle "an eye for an eye"?
Who is Hammurabi?
What term describes unfree labor used to pay a debt, sometimes temporary and sometimes permanent?
What is bonded labor?
Which Greek philosopher wrote that "some should rule and others be ruled" and defended slavery as natural?
Who is Aristotle?
Which of these is listed in the unit as a human right:
(A) right to drive
(B) right to work and education
(C) right to own a pet
(D) right to vacation
What is B - right to work and education?
The unit links mention "food deserts." A food desert is best defined as:
(A) an area with many restaurants
(B) an area lacking easy access to affordable, nutritious food
(C) a desert with no food
(D) a region with too many grocery stores
What is B- an area lacking easy access to affordable, nutritious food?
How many laws are in Hammurabi’s Code?
What is 282?
In ancient Egypt, what term best describes citizens forced by a government to work unpaid on state projects?
What is forced labor?
The Cyrus Cylinder is most associated with which year/event:
(A) 1792 BCE Hammurabi’s reign
(B) 539 BCE fall of Babylon
(C) 476 CE fall of Rome
What is B - 539 BCE fall of Babylon?
Which of these is an example of a civil/political right as defined in the unit:
(A) right to education
(B) freedom from torture
(C) right to vote
(D) right to food
What is C - right to vote?
True or False - The unit claims that slavery existed since the rise of civilization and was documented throughout the world.
What is True?
According to the Code of Ur-Nammu excerpt, what is the prescribed punishment if a man commits murder?
What is that man must be killed?
Which form of slavery often resulted from capture in war rather than racial classification?
What is chattel slavery?
Which Roman emperor mentioned in the unit was infamous for persecuting Christians and died in 68 AD?
Who is Nero?
True or False — The unit states that civil rights protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
What is True?
Which ancient leader allowed some enslaved people to return to their homelands, as noted in the unit?
(A) Hammurabi
(B) Cyrus the Great
(C) Constantine
(D) Nero.
Who is B - Cyrus the Great?
The Code of Ur-Nammu was written around which approximate year BCE?
What is ~2100 BCE?
Which ancient society is specifically noted in the unit for having a large portion of its population possibly enslaved (around 25%)?
What is Ancient Greece?
Which legal code uses a series of if/then statements and distinguishes between "slave" and "free" classes?
What is Code of Ur-Nammu and Hammurabi’s Code?
Which excerpt is from the Code of Ur-Nammu?
(A) "An eye for an eye."
(B) "If a man commits a murder, that man must be killed."
(C) "All men are created equal."
(D) "No taxation without representation."
What is B- "If a man commits a murder, that man must be killed."
Which refugee/ethnic crisis is mentioned in the unit's media list as a modern human-rights issue?
What is Rohingya in Myanmar?