Hammurabi Code Dbq

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Hammurabi's Code

Temi Aminu

Hammurabi's Code was written by King Hammurabi, with 282 laws written to tell us the life in Babylon and Mesopotamia and to define all the aspects of life in the Babylonian Empire. The laws were applied to everyone, the laws and punishments differed per social classes and the punishments for disobeying a law were very harsh. These punishments ranged from death, to cutting off a tongue, to paying others with money or crops. In my essay, I will be talking about how important honesty was to the Babylonian Empire, the value of animals and crops, the importance of commerce, the economy, the legal relationship between husband and wife, and the legal system.

Honesty was important because most of the laws were saying that if you were not honest with your parents, master, husband or wife then you would get punished. When one reads the laws, you would think that honesty was something that the people in the Babylonian Empire worried about. For example, law 127 states " if anyone "point the finger" at a sister of a god …show more content…
laws. Could you imagine having to follow and obey the Hammurabi Code? How would you even survive with the Code. The Hammurabi Code was very different from the U.S. laws because in the Hammurabi Code if you steal a corn you would be put to death or they would cut your tongue or ears off. But in the U.S. if you steal corn the punishment would not be terrible because there are a lot of corn in the U.S. and corn is easy to grow here then in Mesopotamia that had desert lands. Also the Hammurabi Code was very strict but it stopped many people from committing a crime a lot because no body wants to go through those life threatening punishments. But in the U.S. people would still commit a crime over and over again because they know that jail now was not as worst as it was back then and the U.S. punishment are not life threatening as the Hammurabi Code punishment

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