Hammurabi’s code Questions
1- What do many of the laws protect in Hammurabi code . 2. What is valued more In Babylon, human life or property? (Explain your answer . 3. What can we learn about the treatment of women in this text . 4. Based on these laws in this excerpt, what kind of problems did Babylonia have? 5. How is the punishment of these laws different from the laws today. 6. Do you consider these laws fair? (Explain). 7. If you had to rewrite the law, “if a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out .” What kind of punishment would you assign?