Hammurabi Code Essay

Hammurabi’s code Hammurabi was the king of Babylon, he rued for 42 years. One day the god Shamash came down to earth and told Hammurabi to create laws. These laws were called Hammurabi’s code. Hammurabi created these laws to protect the weak, he wrote is laws on a big pillar, like stone called a stele he wrote his laws in an ancient writing called cuneiform. Although gods allowed him to make these laws, not all of them were fair. Some of his laws were fair and some were not. Some of Hammurabi’s codes were unfair. One law that supports this statement is law 195, “if a son has struck his father he shall get his hands hewed (cut) off. This proves the statement because the son would not be able to play or pretty much do anything. Another law that proves this statement is law
According to law 196, “if a man knocks out the eye of his equal, his eye shall get knocked out”, this law supports my statement because of the fact that he knocked the eye out of his equal he gets an equal punishment so it’s fair. According to law 215, “if a surgeon operates on a free man with a bronze lancet and saves him he shall get 10 shekels of gold” this law also supports my statement because the surgeon gets paid for doing a good job so this law is fair. Additionally, law 196 was made so that the man would have a fair punishment, law 215 was made so surgeons would get fair rewards for doing a good job.
Therefore, these laws have proven that Hammurabi’s laws were fair. To sum it up Hammurabi created both fair and unfair laws. Some of Hammurabi’s laws were fair and some were unfair. I have proven this by stating both the fair and unfair laws. Hammurabi wanted to create these laws because he wanted to protect the weak, they were called Hammurabi’s code. Many people thought these laws were very important because Hammurabi said that Shamash himself told him to create these laws. Unfortunately for him, we don’t believe in those laws