Early Civilization Assessment

Hammurabi was a god who lived in Babylon. He made laws to being equality and righteousness. He didn't want the people of higher statuses to run over people of the lower class. He wanted to have a safe and good civilization.The codes of Hammurabi were the first universal law codes in human history. They are influencing the laws that are being made today. Today, we base all of our laws on Hammurabi's law codes. Similar we have the death penalty as he had the act of putting to death for there unlawful behavior. We usually put people to death for an outrageous crime and/or to show people an example of what would happen if you did the same crime or something of that nature. In Hammurrabi's days if you did crime almost any crime you would be put to death immediately without question. For example, if someone stole an item from someone, then Hammurabi would say put the person who stole the item to death and the person who the item was stolen from only if they didn't have any evidence. Today, if that happened then the person who's stuff was stolen would have not gotten penalized If they couldn't prove there case. On the Contrary, if they did prove there case and the suspect was proven guilty then they have gotten about 10 years to life in prison, give pr take a few years. If someone committed a crime of selling a stolen item there would be two different outcomes due to the time. In Hammurabi's time, the person who bought the stolen item would be killed nd the person who initially stole the item would also be killed too. In today's time, if this situation happened most of the time the person caught with the stolen item would be charged with a fine or have to serve a period of time in prison and same goes for the person who initially stole the item. He suspects family would call the time I jail unreasonable but if they were in the days of Hammurabi, then they would call this a "slap on the hand." If a persons' identity was stolen was stolen in Hammurabi's days both the suspect and the victim would be killed. The ruler wouldnt even know who the real victim is because they didn't have any way to prove it. The suspect could possibly be the victim. No one had no way of knowing, unless of course, a family member of the victim testifies. Most likely no one would have wanted to be part of the situation sue to the penalty of death. Today, there is proof of identification making it easier to know who the victim and the suspect is. The penalty would also bw death depending on how much damage was done or a very long time in jail. Today we still have death as an option when being committed of a crime but it isn't the first option that is went to. Hammurabi's code of law would have made some of the situations nonexistent because the people would have been too scared or frightened to commit any crime. Hammurrabi showed them that he wanted to make his civilization the greatest. If anyone tried to mess it up for him, he was going to.put an end to them. Today, the laws were adjusted to fit everyone's needs and wont scare anyone away from our country.