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Define the following:

B.C. A.D. BCE CE

Place the above terms on the timeline below:

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Timelines Follow Up
History is about asking questions. There are no definite answers sometimes.

Did yesterday make you start to ask more questions?

Turn & Talk:

1. What confused you about yesterdays lesson

2. What kinds of questions did you start to ask?

Essential Question 2
How Does Religion and Power interact to influence civilizations?

Hammurabi: Take notes about King Hammurabi in your notebooks

Who: King of Ancient Babylonia When: about 1800 B.C.E.

How long ago was this?

Where: Was King of Babylonian Empire in Modern day Iraq

What:
Some of the worlds first laws to be written
down

Some the the earliest forms of writing

called: Cuneiform

Why was this created

Once Hammurabi conquered all his land he needed a
way to keep people in order.

Laws are a way to give everyone a common

expectation for how to behave.

How do we know: Primary Sources

These are pictures of his

Laws on stone

How do we know: Primary Sources

Take a look at here

On the next page there are 4 pieces of Hammurabis
Law. Read through and think about these laws. Answer these questions:

1. What types of laws are these?

2. Are these fair or unfair

3. Are the punishments harsh or just? 4. Would you like to live under these laws? Why?

Source: These are parts of Hammurabis Code from 1754 BCE. They were translated from several tablets that were taken from a site in Ancient Babylon (Current Iraq). If a man has broken through the wall to rob a house, they shall put him to death and pierce him, or hang him in the hole in the wall which he has made. If a man has knocked out the eye of a free man, his eye shall be knocked out If a trader borrows money from a merchant and then denies it, the trader shall pay the merchant three times the amount he barrowed If a man want to disinherit his son, but judges find that that son has done no wrong, the father may not disinherit his son