1. Today’s Lesson: Hammurabi’s Code
What is the best way to organize a society?

2. Answer The Opening Questions:
What is a law?
Why do we have laws?
What is one law that has helped to protect you, your family, or your friends?
What is one law that you think is unfair and might have affected you, your family, or your friends?

3. Who Was Hammurabi?
Hammurabi was the king of Babylonia. An ancient empire in Mesopotamia.
The city of Babylon was the capitol of this empire.
Hammurabi is believed to have reigned during the 18th century BC (1800 BC to 1701 BC)

4. Ancient Babylonia was part of the ancient region called Mesopotamia which is today the modern country of Iraq

5. Code Of Hammurabi
A Babylonian legal code established by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters.
It is one of the oldest translated writings in the world
Partial copies of the code exist on a human-sized stone stele and various clay tablets.

6. Definition for a Legal Code:
What is a “code” of law?
set of written rules for people to obey
Hammurabi took a set of existing rules, combined them into single code of law

7. Do laws have a positive or negative impact on society?
Why or why not?

8. Today’s Essential Questions
What was the purpose of Hammurabi’s Code?
Why do we have laws?

9. Assignments: Individual: Excerpts From Code Of Hamm.
Group: Judging Babylonian Court Cases
Packet must be turned back at the end of class…
A scribe should write down answers to questions