Hammurabi Trivia Questions

The Hanging Gardens are traditionally associated with Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled centuries after Hammurabi.

The stele shows Hammurabi receiving the laws from Shamash, the god of justice, to legitimize his rule.

The code focused on strict retaliation and burden of proof on the accused; presumption of innocence emerged much later in Roman law.

Similar retributive justice existed in earlier Sumerian codes; Hammurabi popularized but didn't invent it.

Hammurabi conquered Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria, uniting the entire region between the Tigris and Euphrates under the Old Babylonian Empire.

French archaeologists found the stele at Susa, where it had been taken as war booty by Elamites.

Laws 108-111 regulated tavern keepers and beer transactions. For example, a female tavern keeper who overcharged for beer could be thrown into the water (executed).

The Code of Hammurabi contained provisions permitting women to own property, run businesses, and obtain divorces under specific conditions, though the legal framework remained strongly patriarchal.