Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Hammurabi’s Code

Today in class we continued reading the textbook to finish taking notes. Then we started a powerpoint on Mesopotamia and all of those civilizations back then. We had to answer the following question for homework :

What areas of life did Hammurabi's Code cover?

Hammurabi collected existing laws and created new ones and put them all together to make a uniform code of law made from 282 laws. It helped unify the different city-states in the empire. Everyone had to obey the laws but the punishments for the rich and the poor were different.

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