Hammurabi's Code
A son's hand would be cut off.
What is the punishment if a son struck his father?
Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C.
Where and when did writing first develop?
They kept it recorded on clay tablets.
What was the method for keeping records?
3100 B.C.
What was the time writing was invented?
Based on the idea of an "eye for an eye".
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The people of Sumer.
Who developed the first writing system?
Were writers who kept written records of important events.
Who were scribes?
To keep records of how many animals were bought and sold or how much food should be grown.
Why did the Sumerian's make clay tokens?
The _______ the class of the victim, the greater the penalty was.
What is higher?
He ruled Babylonia from about 1792 to 1750 B.C.
When did Hammurabi rule Babylonia?
Sumerians had to keep records.
Why did writing first develop?
Kept records of sales and trades, tax payments, gifts for gods, marriage and deaths.
What did scribes keep records of?
A way to represent a different languages by combining symbols to make groups of wedges and lines.
What is Cuneiform?
a slave's ear would be cut off
What is the penalty for slapping a gentleman?
What is a code?
Farm animals
What were the Sumerians earliest written documents of?
The tablets purpose.
What did the shape and size of the tablet depend on?
Independently, did not borrow ideas from other civilizations.
How do scholars believe that Sumerian developed their system of writing?
Because they were written down, everyone could know the rules.
Why were the laws important?
The code helped the people of Mesopotamia have structure, order and settle conflicts.
What was the purpose of Hammurabi's code?
Was one of the most important skills in the ancient world.
What is writing?
Provided the clay scribes used to write on.
What were the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Paper was not invented.
Why did Sumerians write on clay?
The surgeon hand shall be cut off
What if a surgeon caused a death?