HAMMURABI'S CODE OF LAWS

CITY-STATES

• Towns or cites that rule themselves and the
• land around them

BLANK SLATE

• Something that has yet to be marked
• ,determined, or developed

ACCUSED

• A person charged with doing something
• wrong

STELE

• An upright stone or pillar engraved
• with writing

IRRIGATION CANALS

• Ditches that carry water from a river
• to a farm to water cropes.

SCURITY

• A feeling of safety; freedom from
• danger.

CUNEIFORM

• Wedge-shaped characters used in
• writing several ancient languages.

ASPECTS

• A way in which something can
• be viewed by the mind.

BABYLONIA

• A rich and powerful empire
• in Mesopotamia.

MILITARY CAMPAIGNS

• Activity by a miltary designed to
• achieve a specific objective .

DOCUMENTS

• Writing that provides in formation.

MESOPOTAMIA

• The land between the Tigirs and Euphrates
• ; site of several anceint civilization;part
• of what is now known as Iraq.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

• A palce where ancient people lived,
• worked ,or left things they made
• - e g., the pyramids of Egypt

SOCIAL CLASSES

• Group of people with different levels
• of imortance within society.

JUST

• Something that is fair and right.

SQUABBLES

• To engage in a disagreeable argument,
• usually over a trivial matter.

HARSH

• Unpleasant to hear, touch or
• endure.

UNJUST

• Not fair; marked by injustice
• or partiality or deception

CIVILIZATION

• A culture that has a system of
• goverment,religion, and learning

VICTIM

• An person who suffers from crime
• ,disease,accident or bad experience.

JUSTICE

• The idea of being fair or right for
• all people no matter what they look
• like or who they are.

INTACT

• All in one piece or whole.

SOCIETY

• A group of people forming
• a community.

IRRIGATION LAWS

• Laws to protect the water
• rights for the people.

TRAMPLING

• Tread or stomp heavily
• or roughly

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SAMPLING

• To gain data about the whole
• by studying a part.