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Hammurabi's Code: Eye For An Eye

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Have you ever heard of Hammurabi’s Code? We hear this in this article Hammurabi’s code: Eye For an Eye.” In this article the author claims, Hammurabi’s code shows how life was in Babylon. First of all, the author tells us about Hammurabi. For example, Hammurabi ruled Babylon from 1792-50 B.C.E. He wanted to make justice and laws to support also protect widows and orphans. Hammurabi made laws for all of the diverse people. Next, we hear about the laws and the code. These 282 law where found by French archeologist. The law today is very different from Babylon in many ways. Like, if you pay you creditor in grain and it doesn’t grow, you don’t need to pay your creditor any grain for a year. People my think Babylon’s laws are good, but they
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