Compare And Contrast The Law Of The Babylonian Empire-Hammurabi Code

The law of the Babylonian Empire- Hammurabi code held people responsible for their actions. Laws differed from place to place. Laws have developed and changed over time because at first the early civilizations used the Babylonian empire and then as the time went by early river valley civilizations such as; Sumer, Egypt, Indus valley and china started to develop their own laws and forms of government. For example the Sumerians built independent city-states governed by monarchs and united the city states into the first empires which came up with the Babylonian law, Egyptians lived in farming villages and each village had its own rituals, gods and chieftain the villages were under the rule of two separate kingdoms; lower Egypt and upper Egypt