1. Intro to Hammurabi’s Code DBQ-Day 2
Windy Mulder
Horizon Middle School

2. Turn Down For What?! Oh Wait, It’s Thursday…
Please write down today’s agenda in your planner
The planner stamper will be the person who guesses my favorite color
Write the following words in the notes section of your binder. Leave enough room between words to write definitions
City-state
Babylonia
Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Stele

3. Vocabulary You Will Need To Know
City-state: an independent city, sometimes walled, and often including the territory around it

4. Vocabulary You Will Need To Know
Babylonia: the kingdom ruled by Hammurabi. It included a number of city-states and was located in Mesopotamia, along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

5. Vocabulary You Will Need To Know
Mesopotamia: a region in the Middle East that included modern-day Iraq and sections of modern-day Turkey, Iran, and Syria. Mesopotamia means “land between two rivers”

6. Vocabulary You Will Need To Know
Cuneiform: a kind of writing used in Sumer and Babylonia. Letters were carved into stone or soft clay with a stylus, which looked like a chopstick

7. Vocabulary You Will Need To Know
Stele: an upright stone slab or pillar, often bearing an inscription

8. Background Essay
Read essay and answer questions

9. Community Living Discussion
What are the pros and cons of having people live in large communities?
Pros Cons

10. Community Living Discussion
People have been stealing, killing, and maiming for quite a long time. How did early civilizations handle this?
Have we made any progress in the last 4,000 years?