Bookmark them as necessary on your computer. Read through the lesson plan and visit the websites you plan to have your students use. Download and prepare as necessary handouts from the downloadable PDFs for this lesson. Download photographs of any artifacts students will be viewing offline. Review all websites and materials students will view.You can find information about where the borders of Babylonia fall in terms of the Modern Political Map through a comparison with Mesopotamia in 1750 BCE, both available from the British Museum's Mesopotamia site through a link from The Oriental Institute: The University of Chicago.Designed for high school and college students, it may also be appropriate for some middle school students. For more information on Hammurabi and the Hammurabi Code, teachers can read the Lecture: The Code of Hammurabi and the section Mesopotamian Civilization, a link from EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library.The fifth paragraph advises future kings to follow these precepts. It informs the reader that through these precepts one can find out "what is just." In the third paragraph, Hammurabi pledges his allegiance to the god Marduk-the highest in the Babylonian pantheon, comparable to Zeus in the Greek pantheon. The epilogue states that the stone on which the Code is inscribed was set up in the E-Sagil temple in Babylon. Finally, number two hundred twenty-eight shows the specificity of the precepts and implies that there was a set fee schedule for the work of skilled tradesmen, in this case a set fee of two shekels for each sar of building, comparable to modern builders who charge so much per square foot. It is also found in the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 21:18–19, 22–25, Leviticus 24:17–21) and in the Gospels (Matthew 5:38). Number one hundred ninety-six is perhaps the most famous of the precepts. Number one hundred and eight indicates that women could own at least some kinds of businesses in Old Babylonia. Such a system would tend to redistribute land from large to small owners. Number sixty indicates the existence of something akin to a sharecropping system in which one person farms land in exchange for land in five years. The fourth precept indicates that fines of money and/or grain were imposed and implies the existence of something akin to our civil suits in which the complainant received a settlement. He also states that the purpose of the Code is "to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land … so that the strong should not harm the weak." The third precept indicates the existence of a judicial system with elders serving as judges. In the prologue, Hammurabi claims that his authority comes directly from the gods. The complete text of Hammurabi's Code is available from the EDSITEment-reviewed web resource the Avalon Project.įor a representative sample of the Code, read: the prologue (first and last paragraphs) precepts 3, 4, 60, 108, 196, and 228 and the epilogue (paragraphs 1–3 and 5). It is marked as the "Law Codex of Hammurabi." You may access directly the information about the stele, which is also from the Louvre. Once on the Louvre website, click on the link for "selected works" at the left then, click on Oriental Antiquities under "selected works" click on Mesopotamia and Anatolia and finally, you will see an image of the stele by scrolling down through the thumbnail images. Information and an image of the stele can be found by visiting the Louvre Museum, which is available through EDSITEment-reviewed resource The Oriental Institute: The University of Chicago. Though Hammurabi's Code is not unique, it is still the longest code yet discovered and one of the only ones known to have been inscribed on a stele. Since that time, however, earlier similar "codes" have been unearthed. At the time, it was the oldest known set of what appeared to be laws. Its leader, Father Vincent Scheil, translated the code the following year. The Code of Hammurabi, inscribed on a large stone stele-an upright slab-was uncovered by a French expedition in 1901.
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