Hammurabi and The Middle East

Vanguard for Tuesday, October 13, will be at the Stoddart home.( 3111 N 575 E North Ogden). We will start at 10 and end at 12. 

We look forward to seeing you all!

Read these few pages on Hammurabi and be prepared to discuss.  Questions to think about: What kind of person was Hammurabi? What two purposes did Hammurabi's code serve? How does this apply to accountability?

Here are a couple of videos that you could watch to get a bit more information on Hammurabi and his code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXvM_0rFO-w 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w5NGOHbgTw 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vDi25Fonqo

Make Your Own Law Code Stele 

A stele is a carved stone. Hammurabi wanted all to follow his laws and placed many markers around his empire so people would know the laws and obey them. Many great leaders including Washington have made "codes" for themselves to live by. 

Make a stele for yourself that shows the rules you follow either for yourself or your family. You may follow the directions below or make up your own. Bring and teach us about a few or all of your codes you have set for yourself. 

(Taken from Susan Wise Bauers Story of the World" Ancient Times) 

Materials: 

Large sheet of paper (10"x18") 

Scissors, 

saucer, 

ruler, 

colored pencils or crayons

 Directions: 

1. Using a saucer, or other round object, draw a curved line on the corners at the top of the paper. Use scissors to trim the pointed parts off. 

2. Measure down 9" from the top of the page and draw a straight line across the page with your ruler. The top curved portion of the page will be where you draw a straight line across the page with your ruler. The top curved portion of the page will be where you draw your picture and the bottom portion will be where you write your rules. Drawing extra lines with your ruler on the bottom portion of the page will make it easier to keep your writing straight. 

3. When you're finished, hang your stele in your room so that you don't forget the rules! 

 Map Work: 

Copy by hand the map shown of the ancient lands of Hammurabi. Compare it to the modern day area. What has changed? Teach us what was there and how that has changed today.

Geography:

We are working on the Middle East this month which is a real hot spot in today's world as well as it was in the beginning of civilization. We would like you to make some connections this week between the ancient world and our world today.

Choose one or more of these Inspirements to do this week.

Bring a current event to share and discuss with the group that has something to do with the Middle East. (There are many to choose from.) Make sure you know about it so that we can ask you questions.

Learn about one of the countries and bring a presentation for share with us. It needs to take at least 5 minutes.

Research the geography of the Middle East, the terrain, the animal life, what nature disasters occur there, etc. Prepare a 5 minute presentation to enlighten us.

Study the foods in that area of the world and bring some to share. Tell us about some of the ingredients that are different than what we use in American Cooking.

Find some of the areas that are talked about in the Old Testament and share the story with us. What is in that spot today?

The cultures in the Middle East are quite a bit different than ours. Find out about them and come prepared to share.

Research what Abraham, in the Old Testament, has to do with the troubles we are having today in the Middle East. Share what you learned.