Background Essay: Hamuurabi's Code

Focus on the yellow part. We need to take the idea "We know little" and turn it into "We __ know much about..." What word works best?

finishing this idea...who is this text talking about? (this will go in the #1 space)

focus on the details listed in the purple area: Which word works best to fill in the blank (#1) while still reflecting those details?

Which idea from the text reflect the fact that Hammurabi was a great warrior?

How did Hammurabi expand his control beyond Babylon?

focus on the yellow: What is another way to say "With victories over"? If he was victorious over other kingdoms, what did he do to them?

focus on the orange: What is another way to say "ruler of much of Mesopotamia"? We need to fill in this blank: Now he rules ___ of Mesopotamia?

now focus on the blue: If most of his subjects were farmers, what would be important to them?

focus on the green (you should see a pattern from the last time it said "After ___ the Babylonian Kingdom" in our notes): What word will give us the same idea as "After his victories at Larsa and Mari" ?

focus on the yellow: What word will give us the same idea as "Hammurabi's thoughts"? If you are thinking about something, what are you doing? Hammurabi started to ___ on how to keep...

Why might Hammurabi have placed several copies of these laws all around the kingdom?

If Hammurabi's Code was the "most complete," what would that mean for the people studying it?

⇒ By studying these laws, historians know what ___ was like in Babylon during this time.

Which word goes in the space for #2? (hint: it's an example of a everyday problem -- fights between ___)

Three Social ___

What are the three social classes?