Sumer Social Structure & Mesopotamian Empires

Government ruled by a king

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Polytheism

 Government ruled by religious leaders

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Polytheism

• Theocracy

 King of Babylon that created the world’s first organized written code of law.

• Sargon I

• Hammurabi

• Nebuchadnezzar II

• Ashurbanipal

Choose the answers that are true of The Code of Hammurabi.

• The laws pertained to crime, farming, business, and family

• The laws were displayed publicly on a stele.

• The punishments were not severe

• The punishments for the same crime were different according to which social class a person belonged to

• Wealthy people had different laws and did not have to follow all the laws

 Akkadian King that made the first empire.

• Hammurabi

• Ashurbanipal

• Sargon I

• Nebuchadnezzar II

identify the image and its purpose.

• statue of the god Shamash; worshipping

• sculpture of the king Sargon; to showcase Sagon's power

• stele of Hammurabi's Code; list of laws and punishments

• sculpture of the king Hammurabi; to showcase Hammurabi's wealth

What ideas from the Code of Hammurabi are still important today? (Choose 3)

• having one set of laws for all people under a government

• Nobody is above the law (rule of law)

• making punishments more severe than the crime

• using an oral tradition to pass down laws

• holding people accountable for their actions

Choose the answers that are true of Sargon  (multiple answers)

• postal system

• 1st Empire

• Many roads were builts to connect the city-states

• Made a professional full time army

• Made the weights and measurement the same in every city

Which title would be used by a ruler of a theocracy?

• emperor

• priest-king

• king

• president

Which choice is an example of an empire?

• Many lands, peoples, and cultures under one government or ruler

• king ruling over an independent city-state

• A nation divided into states that follow the same laws

• religious leader that govern the religion and the government