Assignment+2-7

=__Assignment 2-7 __=
 * Source: Read pages 74 and 75 in your online textbook**
 * Directions:** Read the questions/directions carefully and write **clear and detailed** answers on your wiki page.

1. Read the "If you were there..." section on page 74. How will you advise the King? How I will advise the king is that I would say all people are same humans, and that all people should be treated same and fairly. So concluded, everyone should have the same kind of punishment. 2. What happened to Ur by 2000 BCE? By 2000 BCE, Ur lay in ruins by attacks of neighboring countries. 3. Where was Babylon located? Babylon was located in on the Euphrates river, now the land of Baghdad, Iraq. 4. Who became the king of Babylon? When did he become king? In 1792 BC, Hammurabi became king of Babylon. 5. What is a monarch? A monarch is a king of a empire or city. 6. After conquering all of Mesopotamia, what did Hammurabi call his empire? He called it Babylon. 7. Hammurabi was a great warrior and leader. What other skills did he have? He was an able leader, who is good to rule an empire. 8. What is Hammurabi's Code? What areas of daily life did the code cover? Hammurabi's code is a law Hammurabi made that covers everything from marriage to everything in normal life. 9. Give two reasons why Hammurabi's Code was important. First, it was important because everybody in the empire could see the law, and second, it was a fair law. 10. What eventually happened to the Babylonian Empire? How is this similar to what happened to the Akkadian Empire? The Babylon empire came to an end, and it was similar because both empires came to an end after the great leaders died. 11. Read the different laws in the [|Code of Hammurabi on this site] and choose **three** that you think are interesting. __**Copy**__ the three laws and their **numbers** onto your page. Then for **each** law, explain why you think it's interesting. You can write about if you disagree or agree with the law or if you think the law is a good law or a cruel law. 13. (There is no 13th Law because, then as now, the number 13 was considered to be an unlucky and evil number. See [|LAWMuseum Archives].) This is the thirteenth law. I thought it was interesting because thirteen was considered an evil number, and there isn't a law for it. 15. If any one take a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates, he shall be put to death. This is the fifteenth law, and it is interesting because there was a law that respected the slaves. 202. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public. This is law 202, and it is interesting because this means that higher ranked people can strike lower people, but lower people cannot. This means that rank was very important in Babylonia, and that it was a very organized civilization where rank was very important.