Hammurabi Qualities
Great leaders made a promise when they are being coronated. They make a vow wherein the ruler promised to love, thrive and die for his or her country. In history, great rulers represented someone who did the impossible and left a legacy such as Hammurabi, Confucius, Ashoka, Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar. These leaders had most of the qualifications of a great ruler because they are examples of someone who had internal and external qualities such as generosity, great leadership and someone who showed no mercy. They helped their nation grow and thrive through happiness and the sharing of different cultures, had knowledge of warfare, and knew what was going on around them.
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During his reign, he wanted fairness among his people so he created the Babylonian Law Code in the 1700s BCE (Hammurabi, Babylonian Law Code, 1700s, MyHistoryLab p.36). Hammurabi was not the only man recognized for his fairness. Likewise, in China between the fifth and sixth century, Confucius molded the Chinese mind and character to an extent where no one would be known for doing the same thing as him (Confucius, Selections from the Analects, ca 480 BCE, MyHistoryLab, p.89). He thought people were naturally good and that evil was an unnatural condition of disharmony so as an optimistic moralist, he thought with the right guidance among the area of education, society and government, people will achieve to be known as “the superior one” (Confucius, Selections from the Analects, ca 480 BCE, MyHistoryLab, p.89). In simple words, what Confucius had in mind was that people just needed help on bringing harmony and justice back. For example, when he talked about having perfect high moral standards, he said “to be able to practice five things everywhere under Heaven constitutes perfect virtues…which are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness (Confucius, Selections from the Analects, ca 480 BCE, MyHistoryLab, p. 95).” The reason why he listed the virtues is to show if one acts like this, he will earn people’s trust, respect and service; one will win it all. This made Confucius a kind-hearted ruler because he cared to
Great rulers needed to have internal and external qualities …show more content…
During his reign, he wanted fairness among his people so he created the Babylonian Law Code in the 1700s BCE (Hammurabi, Babylonian Law Code, 1700s, MyHistoryLab p.36). Hammurabi was not the only man recognized for his fairness. Likewise, in China between the fifth and sixth century, Confucius molded the Chinese mind and character to an extent where no one would be known for doing the same thing as him (Confucius, Selections from the Analects, ca 480 BCE, MyHistoryLab, p.89). He thought people were naturally good and that evil was an unnatural condition of disharmony so as an optimistic moralist, he thought with the right guidance among the area of education, society and government, people will achieve to be known as “the superior one” (Confucius, Selections from the Analects, ca 480 BCE, MyHistoryLab, p.89). In simple words, what Confucius had in mind was that people just needed help on bringing harmony and justice back. For example, when he talked about having perfect high moral standards, he said “to be able to practice five things everywhere under Heaven constitutes perfect virtues…which are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness (Confucius, Selections from the Analects, ca 480 BCE, MyHistoryLab, p. 95).” The reason why he listed the virtues is to show if one acts like this, he will earn people’s trust, respect and service; one will win it all. This made Confucius a kind-hearted ruler because he cared to