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Ancient history week 4a
- 3. In the Mesopotamia area, other empires invaded and new rulers were put into place. A new civilization began to flourish called Babylonia. (The Babylonians from the Old Testament)
- 4. One of the more famous leaders of this empire was Hammurabi.
- 5. He lived from 1792-1750 BC.
- 6. We know a lot about him because in 1901 archaeologists unearthed a 7 foot high stone monument which had written on it was a code to 300 laws by Hammurabi.
- 7. The code itself explains that laws were written “to cause justice to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and to further the welfare of the people.”
- 8. One of the ways that men live alongside one another in peace is to have laws that everyone agrees to live by.
- 9. Before these laws were discovered, historians thought that there must not have been any laws in existence in early history.
- 10. Hammurabi proved them wrong. In the code, this King set standards for land deals, trading, loans, debts, wages, and even witchcraft. What should be done to the man who builds a house that falls & kills the owner? What should be done about a wife who ignores her duties & belittles her husband? What happens if a man is unable to pay his debts? What should happen to a boy who slaps his father? How is the truth determined when one man brings an accusation against another?
- 11. The significance of these laws becomes clearer when you stop to think about Moses. God was giving him the laws for the Israelites near this time in history as well.
- 12. Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy There are similarities in the Code of Hammurabi and the law God gave Moses, but there are some differences as well.
- 13. The Ten Commandments and other laws God gave Moses had to with worship of one God as well as with relationships between man.
- 14. Hammurabi doesn’t address the worship of one God. Moses gave God all the glory in the laws he recorded. Hammurabi gave glory to himself.
- 15. God’s laws are always right, with the consequences to sin being just and fair.
- 16. Hieroglyphics were pictures that the Egyptians drew and carve into items to communicate words of their language.
- 17. They were used for thousands of years. Inside the tombs and pyramids, on vases and statues, these carvings were made that communicated stories of the Egyptian life.
- 18. These pictures tell us about their life and beliefs.