HAMMURABI'S CODE OF LAWS VOCABULARY

CITY-STATES

• Towns or cities that rule themselves and land around them.

BLANK SLATE

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

ACCUSED

• A person charged 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 crops

SECURITY

• A feeling of safety freedom from danger.

CUNEIFORM

• Wedge shaped characters used in writing several ancient langages

ASPECTS

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

BABYLONIA

• A rich powerful empire in mesopotamia

MILITARY CAMPAIGNS

• Activity by military designed to acheve a specific objective

DOCUMENTS

• Writing that provides information

MESOPOTAMIA

• The land between the Tigris and Euphrates site of several ancient civilizations now iraq

JUST

• Something that is fair and right

SOCIAL CLASSES

• Groups of people with different levels of importance

ARCHAEOLOGIOGICAL SITE

• A place where ancient people lived worked or left things they made

UNJUST

• Not fair marked by injustices or partially of decepton

HARSH

• Unpleasant to hear touch or endure

SQUABBLES

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

JUSTICE

• The idea of being fair or no matter what they look like or who they are

VICTIM

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

CIVILIZATION

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

INTACT

• All in one piece or whole