Wed., 10/23

Do Now—Exercise 15E—Model answer:

After the Elamite king, Kindattu, sacked Ur in 2004 B.C., warlords in Mesopotamia fought constantly to gain territory. After two centuries of struggle, the Babylonian Empire rose to prominence when a coalition headed by Hammurabi defeated a coalition of kings from Assyria, Elam, and the independent city-state, Eshnunna. Babylonian astronomers knew the difference between planets and stars and that the Earth traveled around the sun. Babylonians also invented the system of twelve month years, twenty-four hour days, and sixty minute hours. Because its power and authority to enforce the law resided in the words inscribed on steles and did not merely depend upon the whims of a human leader, the Code of Hammurabi was an important early step towards the rule of law.

Turn in your Field Notes No. 15 today or tomorrow.

Read:

Ch. 23

HW:

Read / Review Chapter 23 for up to twenty minutes. Turn in your Field Notes No. 15 today or tomorrow.