...Yes Hammurabi's Code was fair, laws like 196 "Eye for an Eye", 23 "If a robber isn't caught, man robbed gets their thingss replced by city"and law 195 "If son hits parents, his hands shall get cut off" are many reason explaining why. How do you feel about law 196? I think it is fair that if someone knocks out the eye of another, his eye shall be knocked out too. Hammurabi's Code is fair, because it fought for protection for all people, served justice, and treated people fairly by creating such laws. Law 196 was one reason why it was fair. For example, if a man walks up to another man and kicks him he should get kicked back. You should treat people the way you want to be treated, and if you treat someone bad expect the same thing...
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...Hammurabi’s code Hammurabi’s code hurts innocent people instead of protecting them from harm. Hammurabi is the king of Babylonia and ruled Babylonia for 42 years. Hammurabi has also constructed 282 laws for his subjects of Babylonia and wrote them on Steele's and called them Hammurabi’s code. Hammurabi made these laws to protect his subjects mostly women and children that were weak and could not defend for themselves but that is not the case. Hammurabi's code does not help the innocent at all this code just hurts the innocent so leading to conclusion, Hammurabi’s code is not just.As wee look into the family laws and Property laws it can be proven that Hammurabi’s code wasn’t just Hammurabi’s code is unjust and can be found in the family...
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...According to Hammurabi’s code a father can choose to disinherit his son. Now what even is Hammurabi’s code is the question. Hammurabi’s code is the first ever set of laws made over 4,000 years ago and it is important because it helped shape our laws we have today. These laws were made to protect the weak. I believe that Hammurabi’s code is unjust because people did not get to help make the laws or give idea’s, laws were different for different genders, and laws depended on your social class. These laws need to be the same for everyone because laws impact all people that live...
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...Hammurabi’s code was it just or unjust? Hammurabi’s code was a set of 282 laws that were written by the king of Babylon Hammurabi in 1792 BCE. He said that he was told to write and enforce those laws by the god Shamash. Hammurabi was the only person who could change the laws. There are three areas of law where Hammurabi’s Code can be shown to be unjust. These are family laws property laws, and personal injury laws. Examples of injustice can first be found in the area of family law. First, law number 129 states that if a woman is caught cheating that she and the person whom she cheated with will be tied up and drowned. Second, law number 195 states that id a son hits his father that the consequence to his actions is that he will have his hands cut off. These examples show tat Hammurabi’s Code was unjust because the laws that Hammurabi created for families were too harsh. Hitting your father should not result in your hands being cut off, although it does deserve a punishment the one in place was too strict. Also cheating on you significant other does not need to be punished by death....
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...civilization were the invention of cuneiform and hammurabi’s code. To begin, the ancient Sumerians invented cuneiform, which paved the way for written language in the future (OI). Cuneiform was the very first written language, invented over 5000 years ago (Doc. 1). Cuneiform could only be written by scribes in the ziggurat (OI).Sumerians used cuneiform for keeping track of business dealings, keeping records and more (Doc. 1). From all of these new ideas they were able to be passed from generation to generation (Doc. 1). After the scribes wrote on the clay tablets they were then baked in a kiln...
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...Hammurabi was a ruler in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE. He was a in Mesopotamian ruler for 42 years. He said that the god shave giving rules for everyone to follow and even after Hammurabi died the people should still follow those rules. But was Hammurabi's code fair to all genders, social classes, and jobs? I think not! Hammurabi's Code was very pushed towards men and was definitely not fair for girls and women. One rule that was pointed towards men and boys was law 168, it read “If a son has struck his father, his hand shall be cut off.” which meant if a son had hit his dad his hand will be cut off, but this means a son can his mother and keep his hands! Some are tremendously unfair like laws 209 and 213. Law 209 says “ If a man strikes the daughter of a free man and causes her to lose the fruit of her womb, he shall pay 10 shekels of silver”. One of the reasons this is unfair is because the money does not even go to the women who lost her baby, it goes to the man!...
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...Hammurabi's DBQ Hammurabi's code has been around for a long time, but a question has been doubted many times? So here's my thoughts, Was hammurabi's code fair to EVERYONE? i say Yes, here's why. Well they decided it by your situation, they would take what you took from another person and they also brought those who needed to be brought to justice brought to justice! What's your opinion? But here's mine! First off, it depended on your situation. For an example we could use this law= If the son of paramour or prostitute says to their adoptive father or mother “you aren’t my real father and or mother his tongue shall be cut off. Here it's a situation based law there are also many other laws that are like this also. But let’s talk about this one in specific. It states that if you are the son of paramour or a prostitute, this basically is stating your situation it doesn't say if you're just plain old adopted it means if you are the son of a paramour or a prostitute and then you say that they aren't your real mother or father TO your adoptive mother or father then well you'll get your tongue cut out. But see the situation delima going on here?...
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...A king named Hammurabi made 282 laws 4,000 years ago. Those laws were called Hammurabi’s Code. They were made to protect the weak. But did they really? In my opinion, Hammurabi’s Code wasn’t just. First of all, Hammurabi’s Code hurt family members. For example, in Document C, Law 129, a lady has to be thrown in a lake for cheating on her unharmed husband. Also, in Law 195, he threatened to cut a child’s hand off. He may have struck his father, but cutting a someone’s hand off is way too much. Based on what I read, Hammurabi would throw someone into water. This shows that Hammurabi isn’t afraid to hurt anyone, even children. As you can see, Hammurabi would harm family members no matter who it is. Additionally, Hammurabi’s Code didn’t make sense...
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...Don’t you hate it when you are not treated equal or mislead? Hammurabi had biased and unequal rulings that involved landowners, free people, and slaves. He had 282 laws and he was not open to changing even though some of them were not fair. Hammurabi was alive in the 18th century B.C., this is when he established his code. He ruled Babylonia for 40 years. Was Hammurabi’s laws fair? Hammurabi's laws were unfair because he manipulated his people, he wasn’t open to any change in his laws, and lastly he treated his people unjustly. Hammurabi manipulated his people into think that his laws came directly from Shamash. For example Doc A says, Shamash is a god. Hammurabi says that Shamash advised him in a meeting with the laws. But there is no evidence to prove this meeting really happened. So he could’ve lied to his people by convincing him the god Shamash told him these laws so that his people would follow these rules. From Doc B, it quotes Hammurabi taking props of the rules that he said the god Shamash came up with. Which this shows that he lied to his people. He lied because before he said it was the god's rules...
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...Hammurabi’s code was not just because it was not fair to everyone in a criminal situation. Everybody knew there were consequences for their actions. If a person is about to die, and the doctor is trying to help, but the person still dies - the doctor is punished by having his hands cut off. Law 196 says, “If a man has knocked an eye of a free man, his eye shall be knocked out”. Then Law 199 says, “If he has knocked out the eye of a slave, then he shall pay half his value”. This is not far to the slave because he is a man just like the “free” man. Also Law 48, talks about how if a creditor gives a man money for his crops, but a flood prevents the crops from growing, the creditor does not get his money back. The code was supposed to protect....
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...Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This quote could be said to be true for many empires throughout history. An example of this would be Hammurabi’s code when he ruled over the Babylonian empire. He was the sixth king of Babylon and ruled from 1792 BC to 1750 BC. What Hammurabi was really known for though was his code, which was one of the first known set of laws created in order to bring justice to the land. But were his laws actually fair? Hammurabi’s code was unjust because lots of the laws involved cruel and unusual punishments. This can be proven in three paragraphs, each describing a different category of Hammurabi’s code. The first category that shows how Hammurabi’s laws were unjust...
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...Did you know Hammurabi ruled about 42 year’s ?, Hammurabi was a great ruler and wrote 282 law’s carved on a large stone but some of Hammurabi’s Laws are just not. Hammurabi’s code therathed the family. For examples, in Document C Law 148 if a man wife is weak the man shall marry another women and take care his weak wife. Also in law 129 if a wife is caught cheating with another man they both get throwend in the water bindfloed and tied up This show’s how Hammarbi’s Laws never help the family. Based on what i learned about Hammurabi’s Laws i think this laws are sad because why do they have to drown the women and the men can’t they just give them a differnt punisment also why do they have to marry another women and let the other die can’t...
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...A king of Babylon named Hammurabi created 282 laws to keep problems in order. These laws went by the name of Hammurabi’s Code. However, were these laws just? Although there is a variety of laws, nearly all were not. There are three categories I will choose to prove my point. The categories I will be talking about are the Family Law, the Personal Property Law, and the Personal Injury Law. To start with, Hammurabi’s Code negatively bothered some family members. For example, in Law 168 it said,”If a son has struck his father, his hands shall be cut off.” Moreover, Law 128 states the following,”If a married lady is caught[in adultery] with another man, they shall bind them and cast them into the water.” Based on what I read, Law 195 says if a son disrespects his father by hitting him, his hands shall be cut off. This law negatively bothers the son considering that the effect is too strong for what he did, cutting off his hands should not be the way to fix the problem. Law 129 also bothers them, so much that their hands become tied and then drowned to death. This shows that Hammurabi’s laws are too harsh for the committed misdemeanors. As you will notice, he should have made his laws based on how...
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...Devon L. Humphreys Coach Smith Ancient World History 25 September 2017 Hammurabi’s Code: Was it Just? If two people were in a car accident and one survives, should the other person be hung. Nearly 4,000 years ago a man named Hammurabi. He took control eventually of over 1,000,000. After his victories in Larsa and Mari he had 282 laws carved on a large pillar like stone called a steele . I believe that Hammurabi’s laws were not fair. I will prove so by the following paragraphs by using a couple of Hammurabi’s laws. Hammurabi’s laws were not fair to the ancient Babylonians. “Some students of babylonia have found the laws overly harsh”.Many people have to suffer these cruel consequences. Hammurabi’s laws were by the command of what could not even...
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...social hierarchy are far to overpowering to be looked past. Although the roles of women were limited and not elaborate to say the least, it cannot vie against the strength of the other principles and the international legacy they have left on the world. Babylon was in fact a civilization that included sophisticated systems of law and social hierarchy, but lacked progression in women’s opportunity. First of all, the Babylonian justice system includes the most famous code of law ever assembled. Hammurabi, a king of ancient Babylon wrote a code...
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