Chapter Two: The Fertile Crescent

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Chapter Two The Fertile Crescent

• Chp 2.3 The Legacy of Mesopotamia

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• Objectives
• Learn about the importance of
• Hammurabis Code.
• Find out how the art of writing
• developed in Mesopotamia.

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• Hammurabis Code

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• Hammurabis Code

Code - An organized list of laws and rules.
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• Hammurabis Code

Hammurabi - The king of Babylon from about
1792 to 1750 B.C. creator of The Babylonian
empire.
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• Hammurabis Code

Hammurabis Code The code told the people how to
settle disputes. The code covered all parts of
life. 282 laws. Hammurabis Code was based on
the idea of an eye for an eye.
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• The Art of Writing

Cuneiform - Groups of wedges and lines used to
write several languages of the Fertile Crescent.