HAMMURABI'S LAW CODE
Paragraph 1- Intro
“If a son has struck his father, his hands shall be cut off” Law 195. This is one of Hammurabi's laws, a Babylonian king from 4,000 years ago. Not only were his laws unfair, but they were violent and affected about 1,000,000 people. Hammurabi wrote these laws on a stone stele, there are 282 laws. These laws are organized by themes; family, agriculture, and theft and professional standards.
Paragraph 2- Reason 1 Most of these laws are with the basic concept of “if you do this you'll have the same thing done to you or worse” like Law 196 “if a man has knocked out the eye of a free man, his eye shall be knocked out. Another one, Law 21 “if a man has broken through the wall [to rob] a house, they shall put him to death and pierce him, or hang him in the
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Men are the ones who cause and receive the biggest consequences. Even though women may not have as many rights as we do today, the consequences are way different. In Law 209 “If a man strikes the daughter of a free man and causes her to lose the fruit of her womb, he shall pay 10 shekels of silver” In other words if a man hits a pregnant woman and causes her to lose her baby he has to pay 10 shekels. If you search up what 10 shekels of silver are worth it says that they are a man's yearly salary, but which man, the lowest class or the highest? I'm gonna guess and say the middle class, even if its a years salary it's still a human being and if you look at the other laws stealing has a worse punishment than killing a womans unborn child and now even worse Law 213 “If he has struck the slave-girl of a free man and causes her to lose the fruit of her womb, he shall pay 2 shekels of silver” The worth of a slave back then was low but thats not even half the price. I dont have the whole set of rules but here it does not mention what would happen if a man hit a pregnant woman and it didn't kill the baby, that should still receive a