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The Role of Women in Ancient Babylon: Rights, Occupations, and Cultural Practices

In ancient Babylon, women held respected positions, often employed as scribes and playing vital roles in society. Hammurabi's Laws provided protections and rights for women, enhancing their status in a patriarchal system. Alongside their social roles, Babylonian culture encompassed various traditions, such as feasts served on low tables, featuring foods like millet, barley, lentils, and pita bread. Rituals, amulets, and currency like shekels also played key parts in daily life and religious practices. This insight explores the interplay of law, culture, and women's lives in ancient Babylon.

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The Role of Women in Ancient Babylon: Rights, Occupations, and Cultural Practices

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  1. Harsh Justice

  2. Hammurabi’s Laws

  3. Women’s Roles • Pretty highly regarded. • Had jobs such as scribes. • Hammurabi’s Laws gave rights and protected women.

  4. Babylonian Feast • Traditionally served food on a tray placed on a low table. • Their diet: • Millet (a type of seed) • Barley • Lentils • Cheese • Pita Bread

  5. Amulet A charm with symbolic magical powers meant to protect the wearer

  6. Cedar An evergreen tree

  7. Dank Unpleasantly humid or damp.

  8. Dowry Money or goods a wife brings to a marriage.

  9. Rejoice To feel joyful.

  10. Ritual An act used in a religious ceremony.

  11. Scribe A public secretary or clerk in ancient times.

  12. Shekel The smallest unit of Babylonian currency (Sixty shekels made up one mina. A shekel was made of and worth about half an ounce of silver.)

  13. Stela A stone slab or pillar, usually carved or inscribed.

  14. Ziggurat A special kind of Babylonian temple built in the form of a stepped pyramid.

  15. Scene One

  16. Scene Two

  17. Scene Three

  18. Scene Four

  19. Scene Five

  20. The End

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