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Assignment: Hammurabi’s Code

Directions: Answer the following questions by linking to the websites provided. You must answer in complete sentences that demonstrate your understanding of this ancient rule of law. Be sure to restate the question within your answer.

A. Go to Explanation of Hammurabi's Code and answer the following questions: http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/mesopotamialife/article.php?theme=Law and Government

1. When did King Hummurabi rule over the Babylonian Empire?

2. What is a stela? Where can you find the only surviving stela with Hammurabi’s Code? (You will have to Google this part to find the answer.) Feel free to draw your version of this stella or copy and paste a picture of it below.

3. Who is Shamash and what does Shamash have to do with the codes?

4. The codes are inscribed on the stela. Before the codes is a prologue. What does the prologue state?

5. The codes end with an epilogue. What does the epilogue state?

Go to the next page to complete the following chart. B. Go to List of Hammurabi's Codes http://www.phillipmartin.info/hammurabi/hammurabi_codeindex.htm

Choose 3 laws from any of the six sections of Hammurabi’s codes and describe the laws according to the chart below.

Code # Exact wording of the code Translate the code into Is the code fair for the time (You can copy and paste for this section.) your own words. period? Why or why not? 143 If she have not been a careful If a wife is not a good wife, Well, since marriage was mistress, have gadded about, and if she has gone out considered so important in (Example) have neglected her house and partying, and if she has helping to establish the family have belittled her husband, that made fun of her husband to unit, the behavior of the wife woman shall be thrown into the others, then she will be would be seen as very water. disrespectful. The society thrown into the river. would not want other women doing the same. The punishment would be humiliating for the wife, but it would not be overly severe.