Code Of Hammurabi Essay
Insight to the Past: The Code of Hammurabi
Matthew Bogdanowicz
Western Civilization I Hist 100 220
Professor Leslie Johnson
June 26, 2014
Preface:
Hammurabi was a Babylonian king who ruled from 1792 to 1750 B.C. His attributes were he extended his empire northward from the Persian Gulf to the Tigris and Euphrates River and west to the Mediterranean Sea. He united the area into one extensive empire, Mesopotamia, which in present day is known as Iraq. (Ancient Mesopotamia)
Hammurabi created a list of rules and laws for the people of his empire to follow called “The Code of Hammurabi”. This is one of the oldest and most detailed documents in existence and gives insight as to how the members of Babylonian society lived. The code listed 282 rules for society to obey by and the consequences or guidelines for each member given their social status and their gender. There were rules of every category. From marriage and adultery, criminal acts such a stealing, property, and monetary trading.
What’s interesting about this rulebook is the detail and …show more content…
If your doing caused another member of society some kind of hardship, it was punishable. “If a man has opened the waters, and the plants of the field of his neighbor the waters have carried away, he shall pay ten gur of corn per gan.”(Hammurabi, and C. H. W. Johns) Other punishable acts were that of performing care on others. “If the doctor has treated a gentleman for a severe would with a lancet of bronze and has caused the gentleman to die, or has opened an abscess of the eye for a gentleman with the bronze lancet and has caused the loss of the gentleman’s eye, one shall cut off his hands.” (Hammurabi, and C. H. W. Johns) Gruesome and violent punishments and were not uncommon. However, the punishment for the same acts usually depended on the social class you belonged to or committed the crime
Matthew Bogdanowicz
Western Civilization I Hist 100 220
Professor Leslie Johnson
June 26, 2014
Preface:
Hammurabi was a Babylonian king who ruled from 1792 to 1750 B.C. His attributes were he extended his empire northward from the Persian Gulf to the Tigris and Euphrates River and west to the Mediterranean Sea. He united the area into one extensive empire, Mesopotamia, which in present day is known as Iraq. (Ancient Mesopotamia)
Hammurabi created a list of rules and laws for the people of his empire to follow called “The Code of Hammurabi”. This is one of the oldest and most detailed documents in existence and gives insight as to how the members of Babylonian society lived. The code listed 282 rules for society to obey by and the consequences or guidelines for each member given their social status and their gender. There were rules of every category. From marriage and adultery, criminal acts such a stealing, property, and monetary trading.
What’s interesting about this rulebook is the detail and …show more content…
If your doing caused another member of society some kind of hardship, it was punishable. “If a man has opened the waters, and the plants of the field of his neighbor the waters have carried away, he shall pay ten gur of corn per gan.”(Hammurabi, and C. H. W. Johns) Other punishable acts were that of performing care on others. “If the doctor has treated a gentleman for a severe would with a lancet of bronze and has caused the gentleman to die, or has opened an abscess of the eye for a gentleman with the bronze lancet and has caused the loss of the gentleman’s eye, one shall cut off his hands.” (Hammurabi, and C. H. W. Johns) Gruesome and violent punishments and were not uncommon. However, the punishment for the same acts usually depended on the social class you belonged to or committed the crime