Hammurabi's Code
Biblical Shout-Outs and Allusions
Agricultural Revolution
Babylon
Sumer
100
The creater of the Code.
Who was Hammurabi?
100
Ur is where the "Father of three religions" was born.
What city-state was Abraham born in?
100
Wheat and Barley
What were two major crops the Mesopotamians grew?
100
The region that Babylon is located within.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
One of the most important cities in Sumer.
What is Ur?
200
The number of laws and penalties created.
What is 282?
200
"Jonah and the Whale" took place here.
What biblical tale took place in Nineveh?
200
This is the time when the agricultural revolution occured.
What is the time of 9500 B.C.?
200
The time King Nebuchadnezzar reigned.
What is the time from 605 B.C. to 562 B.C.?
200
The first written language that the Sumerians created.
What is cuneiform?
300
The time when this code was created.
What was the 18th century B.C.?
300
Babylon was where this person was thrown to the lions.
What city-state was Daniel thrown to the lions?
300
The people shifted from being hunters and gatherers.
What happened during the Agricultural revolution?
300
The person who rebuilt the port at Ur on the Persian Gulf and created the Ishtar Gate in Babylon.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
300
Iraq is the present-day country located in this place.
Where is Sumer?
400
"An eye for an eye" or "tooth for a tooth."
What is a famous law and penalty of Hammurabi's Code?
400
Three people thrown in the fire by King Nebuchadnezzar and found with four people in there.
Who are Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?
400
The practice of raising farm animals.
What is Animal Husbandry?
400
Stepped temples that "lead" to their gods.
What are ziggurats?
400
This is located on the Euphrates River near the point where the Tigris and Euphrates joined and flowed to the Persain Gulf.
Where is Ur located in Mesopotamia?
500
Their gods.
Where is Hammurabi's Code said to come from?
500
People often think the "Tower of Babel" was one of these things.
What are ziggurats?
500
This was the method used to water crops.
What is irrigation?
500
The name of the 50 year period when Hebrews were captured and taken to Babylon.
What is the Babylonian exile?
500
This happened in 3500 B.C.
When were the first sumerian city-states formed?
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