Samantha

I am going to introduce you to some of the laws of Mesopotamia. Back then, punishment was extremely severe, they wouldn’t just put people in jail, people might lose a limb.

In 1750 BC, the Babylonian king Hammurabi, created the major set of laws in Mesopotamian time, The Code of Hammurabi. The Code of Hammurabi consisted of 282 laws. They had the bad deed and how the wrong doer would be punished for all 3 types of people, nobles, commoners and slaves. The saying was “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” The Code of Hammurabi was carved on a 2.2 meter high piece of black diorite, with 16 columns on the front and 28 on the back. The carving on the front shows Hammurabi receiving the laws from the sun god, Shamash. The laws influenced the Mesopotamians to accept the authority of the king. The Code of Hammurabi is now on exhibit in The Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

The laws of Mesopotamia influenced the people of the modern day to use laws to keep people in order.

http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/middleeast/hammurabicode.html

http://i-cias.com/e.o/hammurabi_code.htm