2.3 Quick Check Version A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing first developed in Mesopotamia around ____________________.

The Sumerians earliest written records are of ____________________.

Scribes of Mesopotamia mostly kept their records on ___________________.

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

Cuneiform was written so that each symbol represented _____________________.

Cuneiform is written ________________________________.

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

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