Hammurabi City-State Simulator
By Micah's Learning Resources
A Hammurabi's Code simulation game for grades 6 to 10. Students rule Babylon from 1792 BCE for 8 or 12 years. Each year they plan the fields and work crews, face the spring flood of the Euphrates, answer envoys and armies, and judge a court case against the real text of Hammurabi's Code. The irrigation that feeds the city also salts its fields, so choices made in year two come back in year eight. What's Included: - The simulation: one file that runs in any web browser, for the projector or student laptops - 18 court cases built on 28 laws from Hammurabi's Code, quoted from L. W. King's 1910 translation, with the Code's own ruling shown after each verdict - 17 winter events: envoys from Mari and Elam, traders from Dilmun, locusts, fever, a New Year festival, and armies from Larsa, Eshnunna and Elam - A palace library of 11 public domain period images, including the law stele, a cylinder seal, a barley account tablet and the Great Ziggurat of Ur, each with an explanation - An end-of-reign review that compares every ruling with the Code and charts grain, population and salt across the reign - Teacher notes: learning objectives, a 45-minute lesson plan, discussion questions with answers, accuracy notes and sources - A 4-page printable student sheet (primary sources, a law comparison table, a salt and yield graph, and three court cases to judge) with a separate answer key How It Works: - Sow: set each field to wheat, barley or fallow, assign crews to the fields, the canals, the zi
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