Intro to Hammurabi’s Code DBQ-Day 2Windy MulderHorizon Middle School

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

Vocabulary You Will Need To KnowCity-state: an independent city, sometimes

walled, and often including the territory around it

Vocabulary You Will Need To KnowBabylonia: the kingdom ruled by Hammurabi.

It included a number of city-states and was located in Mesopotamia, along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Vocabulary You Will Need To KnowMesopotamia: 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”

Vocabulary You Will Need To KnowCuneiform: 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

Vocabulary You Will Need To KnowStele: an upright stone slab or pillar, often

bearing an inscription

Background EssayRead essay and answer questions

Community Living DiscussionWhat are the pros and cons of having people live in large

communities?

Pros Cons

Community Living DiscussionPeople 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?