Control has been an important factor in our future generation, and ancestral generation for decades in all ways of life. Most people need control to feel like they are the dominant one and the most important people in a nation, civilization, or society. Due to this case, a lot of leaders, masters, kings, pharaohs, and rulers feel the need to establish rules, orders, claims on things that was meant for everybody at one point. In most of these cities control over the people, meant an undeniable power over resources, humans, land etc. Even in today’s society, there are rules and laws created that states it’s just for equality and maintaining order for the protection of citizens in countries. However, we all know some laws are discriminated to …show more content…
At this time, you had the most famous ruler of this period rising to the throne “Hammurabi”. Hammurabi was ruling at the time when the rivals and enemies were on the rise heading to take down Mesopotamia. As a result, he wanted to unify state authority and create a new legal order. Hammurabi wanted to imitate the Egyptian pharaohs and the type of power the Pharaoh had on its kingdom. He used military skills and diplomatic skills to keep strong discipline and obedience as the king. He made the Mesopotamian a strict rule-oriented society. In a way, Hammurabi tried to use the cultured art form in order to write down his legal order code for all to see and prescribed his tradition for future generations. Hammurabi code contained 300 edicts addressing crimes and their punishment, which reflected the social class, the economics, the difference between man and woman. In his code, there was three social classes the free person, the dependent, or a slave. In this code, there were rules to everything, and consequences for the action. The code suggested that each class was treated differently: “If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement”.(Code of Hammurabi) This suggests that the judge was a freeman, and looked upon very highly that he will not suffer death as a punishment, just would have to give up his title. In other cases, where the slave, dependents do anything they will be put to death. “If a chieftain or a man (common soldier), who has been ordered to go upon the king's highway for war does not go, but hires a