The Code of Hammurabi

What we will be looking at …

The Basics: What it is made of, where it is located, etc.

The Code’s Historical Role on Government

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Part of the Epilogue…>>>

Some interesting laws out of the Code of Hammurabi…• "If a man takes a woman to wife, but has no intercourse with her,

this woman is no wife to him."• "If during an unsuccessful operation a patient dies, the arm of the

surgeon must be cut off. "• "If a human talks back to another human their lips shall be hewn

off "• "If a man knocks the teeth out of another man, his own teeth will

be knocked out. "• "If a man puts out the eye of an equal, his eye shall be put out."• "If a man's wife, who lives in his house, wishes to leave it, plunges

into debt, tries to ruin her house, neglects her husband, and is judicially convicted: if her husband offer her release, she may go on her way, and he gives her nothing as a gift of release. If her husband does not wish to release her, and if he take another wife, she shall remain as servant in her husband’s house”

The Code of Hammurabi vs. The Ten Commandments vs. The US Constitution