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True or False: Hammurabi's Code is the first set of laws that were ever written.

True

False

Hammurabi's Code was based partly on earlier Sumerian codes and it contained _________ laws.

182

228

282

300

According to Hammurabi's Code, a crime that involves a victim of a higher class results in a _______________________.

Greater penalty

Lesser penalty

A penalty that is not based on the victim's social class

A first time warning no matter what it is

True or False: A person who broke the law accidentally was just as guilty as someone who did it on purpose.

True

False

During this time, a doctor that failed at performing a surgery resulting in a patient's death would most likely _____________________.

Be put to death

Have their hand cut off

Have their legs broken using a large stone

Be put in prison

According to Hammurabi's Code, if a person were committing a robbery and got caught, they would most likely be ___________________________.

Put to death

Put in prison

Have their hand broken

Pay their neighbor using crops

According to Hammurabi's Code, if a son strikes or hits his father, the son will most likely _________________________.

Be put to death

Be put in prison

Have his hands cut off

Become a slave

Writing first developed in Mesopotamia around ____________________.

2100 B.C.

3100 B.C.

4100 B.C.

5100 B.C.

The Sumerians earliest written records are of ____________________.

Crops

Taxes

Laws

Farm animals

Scribes of Mesopotamia mostly kept their records on ___________________.

Paper

Clay tablets

Cave walls

Flat stones

Before Sumerians invented writing, to keep records they used to use ___________________.

Shaped pebbles

Shaped clay tokens

Stones making tallies on cave walls

Shepherds

Cuneiform was written so that each symbol represented _____________________.

An object

A letter of the alphabet

A number

A star

Cuneiform is written ________________________________.

Left to right, top to bottom

Left to right, bottom to top

Right to left, top to bottom

Right to left, bottom to top

True or False: Cuneiform could be used by people using different languages.

True

False

Hammurabi's Code was very important during that time because ______________________.

Only lower class people had to follow the laws

It was a written set of laws that everyone had to follow

Nobody knew how to read or write at that time

Nobody ever broke the rules after they were written down

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