Green words go in the “Government Chapter”
MESOPOTAMIAN GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT AND LAW
There were rulers who oversaw the cities
 They had the first set of laws
 Why did they suddenly need laws?

GOVERNMENT AND LAW
There were rulers who oversaw the cities
 They had the first set of laws
 Why did they suddenly need laws?
 Large # of people, a civilization could fall
because of the actions of its people, didn’t
know who to trust

LEADERS

Sargon- 2350 BC, Akkadian Empire, first
empire! Kept an army, collected taxes and
tributes, used force, eventually the empire fell
LEADERS

Hammurabi- 1790 BC, king of Babylonian
empire, united the people, tried to stay fair, he
said “so that the strong should not harm the
weak”
LAWS

Code of Hammurabi- 282 laws, eye for an eye