Why Is Hammurabi Important

From this section of Hammurabi’s Code, Historians can learn that farms were important, that debt existed, and that there were consequences for farm related law-breaking. First, Historians can learn that farms were very important. Many of the laws from The Code of Hammurabi were about farms and that there were consequences for mistreating farms. One law that Hammurabi wrote was, “If anyone take over a field to till it, and obtain no harvest therefrom, it must be proved that he did no work on the field, and he must deliver grain, just as his neighbor raised, to the owner of the field.” To till, means to use somebody else land to make food but has to pay the owner a certain amount of that food but the rest goes to them. This law means that is
Debt is another word for a bill or a loan. Many laws talk about debt and they would mean that if a group of owners doesn’t do their jobs, they could receive a loan or ask for one to a neighbor’s area of harvesting. Paying debt was hard if the weather was stormy so the people with the loan didn’t need to pay the creditor. This is law 48 and they established this law because no one could control the weather. Finally, every single law had a punishment because it wouldn’t be necessary for there not to be. A good example for a punishment law would be law number 57. “If a Shepard, without the permission of the owner of the field, and without the knowledge of the owner of the sheep, lets the sheep into a field to graze, then the owner of the field shall harvest his crop, and the Shepard, who had pastured his flock there without permission of the owner of the field, shall pay to the owner twenty gur of corn for every ten gan.” This law just says that if a Shepard has his sheep on somebody else’s land, he would have to grow corn and pay for the punishment. I conclude that every single law refers to the responsibility of a person. If somebody is responsible, they will have a bright future and vise