The Code of Hammurabi and how people lived their lives according to it
Title: The Code of Hammurabi and how people lived their lives according to it
Category: /Society & Culture/Geography
Details: Words: 891 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Code of Hammurabi and how people lived their lives according to it
Category: /Society & Culture/Geography
Details: Words: 891 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 891 total…slave. Unless you are born into a family of slaves: you were
already a slave. 9
In general, the code portrays a stable and well-organized society in which law and order
played a predominate role and in which even the lowliest individual was not without some legal
protection. The code was effective and influenced the poeple of Mesopotamia "over time."
Mesopotamians enjoyed life and repected the code of government, which made Mesopotamia
society as a whloe.10