A remarkable collection of laws known as the code of Hammurabi (an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth) regulated the punishment that was inflected upon citizens who misbehaved. Example if a nobleman pulls out another nobleman’s eyes his eyes should be put out too. Another example would be if a slave put out a nobleman’s eye the slave shall be put to death. How you can see they made big differences between the rich and the poor. Babylonian society consisted of three classes; the upper strata, the low strata, and the slaves. Like the Sumerians had rulers, nobles, priests, commoners, farmers and
A remarkable collection of laws known as the code of Hammurabi (an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth) regulated the punishment that was inflected upon citizens who misbehaved. Example if a nobleman pulls out another nobleman’s eyes his eyes should be put out too. Another example would be if a slave put out a nobleman’s eye the slave shall be put to death. How you can see they made big differences between the rich and the poor. Babylonian society consisted of three classes; the upper strata, the low strata, and the slaves. Like the Sumerians had rulers, nobles, priests, commoners, farmers and