Hammurabi's Code: Was It Just?

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Hammurabi's Code: Was it Just? Do you think that if a man knocks the free man's eye out his shall be knocked out too? Almost 400 years ago a man name Hammurabi became king of Babylon. In ancient mesopotamia .He carved 282 laws into a stele. He created the laws to keep his people straight.We are going to be discussing if Hammurabi’s laws were just. Just is another term for fair.I believe that hammurabi's code was just.I’m gonna be talking about my reasons for Hammurabi’s code being fair. In the family laws section of Hammurabi’s Code, I will be explaining to you why they are fair or just. In law 129, “it says if a married lady is caught with another man they shall be be blinded and casted into the water.” What bind and cast into water