HAMMURABI'S CODE OF LAWS VOCAB

CITY-STATES

• Towns our cities that rule
• themselves and the land
• around them.

BLANK SLATE

• Something that has yet to
• be marked,determinded
• or developed.

ACCUSED

• A person charged with
• doing something wrong.

STELE

• An upright stone pillar
• engraved with righting.

IRRIGATION CANALES

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

SECURITY

• A feeling of saftey;
• freedom of danger.

CUNEIFORM

• Wedge-shaped characters
• used in writing in 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 military
• designed to achieve a
• specific objective.

DOCUMENTS

• Writing that provides
• information.

MESOPITAMIA

• The land between the Tigris
• and Euphrates;site of several
• ancient civilizations;part of
• what is now know as Iraq.

ARCHEAOLOGICAL SITE

• A place where ancient people
• lived,worked,or left things they
• made-eg.,the pyramids of
• Egypt.

SOCIAL CLASSES

• Groups of people with different
• levels of importance within society.

JUST

• Somthing that is fair or right.

SQUABBLES

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

HARSH

• Unpleasant to hear,touch
• or endure.

UNJUST

• Not fair;marked by injustice
• or partiality or deceptiond.

CIVILIZATION

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

VICTIM

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