Who Was Hammurabi?

By: Annisa

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

BIO Of Hammurabi

Hammurabi was the sixth and best known ruler of the 1st(Amorite) the empire of

Babylon (Reigning 1792-50). He was raised in royalty and was the fourth son of Canaan

Amori.

He was born in 1795 and died in 1750. His law was called Hammurabi’s Code which has 282 laws, the first written codes of law in history. The laws were written on a stone tablet which was eight feet tall that was found in 1901. He was an important ancient law-giver, Hammurabi’s portrait is in many government buildings around the world.

Hammurabi was the first most greatest metropolis, and the first ruler of Babylon, Iraq. He was an ancient governor.

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The origin of Hammurabi~

The babylonian empire took hold of and ruled practically Iraq, Egypt, 50% of Turkey,

Jordan, Israel, some parts of Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran.

It was a period of Mesopotamian and it was very ancient and had a very powerful line of

civilization.

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Behind the secrets of the codes

Language: Location:The language that the law was written in, was in

cuneiform but in Akkadian Language. Cuneiform is a form of ancient, old writing and language. It’s a wedge shaped sort of symbol. The Sumerian Civilization were the first to find about “Cuneiform” since education was highly important in their perspectives. Cuneiform was

one of the first languages invented and when Hammurabi decided to instead of saying laws out loud, he wrote them down. Since he’s brought up in a royal empire and he was a king that time, everybody that were ruled by the Babylon Empire had to obey those

rules carefully. If not, they’d be sentenced to not being stuck in jail for the rest of their life, but death.Material:

In the olden days of the ancient civilization, before paper was ever invented. People wrote on stones and/or papyrus. However on

Hammurabi’s laws and codes, he carved it all on stone. The code was around 8 feet/2.4 meters high carved in black stone. The stone was

first found on 1901, in the city of Persia. The material of the code was extremely strong and is extremely powerful.

The code of Hammurabi are now located in museums and universities of certain countries, such as; Museum of Ancient Orient Turkey, France(Louvre, Paris), America(Chicago), Iran

and Germany. How many laws?There are actually of 282 laws from Hammurabi’s collection.

There are approximately 6,390 words on the written stone which takes about 26 minutes for an average person to read.

Time Period:The law was distributed in 1790 B.C. in the time of The Middle Chronology in the Babylonian Empire.

Categories:The law/code is in the

categories of non-fiction, history, ancient and political

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Decoded Law

“If a man has stolen goods from a temple, or house, he shall be put to death; and he that has received the stolen property from him shall be put to death.”

The meaning behind this law is that when someone has stolen important valuables from other people’s belongings, they will be returned to the owner and the person

who stole will be sentenced to death.

Description: Does it exist today?If someone steals something, usually its

reported to the police. Back then, people were sent to death, but in this generation, they’re just

sent to jail. So, no it doesn’t exist today.

Agreement/Disagreement:

I do not agree with this, because from my opinion, I think that if someone steals something and gets caught, they should be put to jail in high security. And, they should

regret what they’ve done and learn from it. Not, be sentenced to death right away.

Punishment: The punishment is that when that person steals something important that is not of

his/her belongings, the person who owns that item, will receive it back. The person

who stole it will be killed by the government people.

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Decoded Law

“An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for A Tooth”

Description:The notion that for every wrong thing

done, there should be a compensating

measure of justice.

Origin: From the Code of Hammurabi. Hammurabi was King of Babylon, 1792-1750BC. The code survives today in the Akkadian language. Used in the Bible, Matthew 5:38

Personal Agreement/Disagreement:

I agree with this term, because if someone does a bad thing and gets

caught, they have to get revenged on by the government and by the owner(if they

steal something).

Punishment:

Existence:This law exists today, believe it or not. It still

does, in fact it’s used in the Christian religion of the Bible. It exists, but it is only if the person

who did the cause is caught, otherwise governors and lawyers have to do a crime

investigate.

The punishment for this matter is accused to the government and the law ministers and the people who

own the country, and it is their choice to whether the person who did the cause should be sentenced

to jail or sentenced to death.

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Decode Law

“ If a man has divorced his wife, who has not borne him children, he shall pay over to her as much money as was given for her bride-price and the marriage-portion which she brought from her father's house, and so shall divorce her.”

Meaning:This means that if a man divorced his wife and he doesn’t have any kids with her, he has to pay her

father, Because her father paid for her marriage portion.

This law doesn’t exist today, because if a man decides to divorce his wife, whether have children or not, they have to meet with their lawyers. By meeting their lawyers, they have to sign a lot of

papers, meet verdicts/etc in a courtroom.

I personally am on both agreement and disagreement factor, mainly because now generations women’s fathers do not have

necessarily have to pay for their daughter’s marriage, but if fathers do pay for their

daughters marriage and their husbands do not want to pay the wife’s father, then they can’t

get a divorce.

If people do not obey this rule, perhaps the man doesn’t want to pay the wife’s father and give money to the wife’s father or the man’s wife disapproves of “divorcement”, then they have to be sent to the king and the empire of their country and it is their choice to whether he/she should be sentenced to jail or sentenced

to death.

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Decoded Law

“If a woman dies, her daughter shall be killed.”Meaning:

If a woman that has a family, has died of sickness, crash, murder,

anything. Then, her daughter(s) must be killed. It also goes to men, and

they’re son dies.

Existence:

No, this law does not exist today. If a woman who has a family dies, her daughter does not die, only if they have killed their mother. They get sentenced to

jail or sentenced to death by the government.

Agreement/Disagreement:

I extremely do not agree with this law and I am so ecstatic that it does not exist today. I don’t agree with this code,

because if perhaps my mother died and I had nothing to do with it and I was innocent, I should not die, because it

wasn’t my fault. Just because daughters are of their mother’s blood/dna, doesn’t mean that if their mothers die,

their daughters should die too.

Punishment:

If they disobey this rule, say if the daughter doesn’t want to be killed and she runs away or her family moves to another city, the whole empire/guards have to search for her/her family and

have no choice but to kill her and might kill her family as well.

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Decoded Law

“If a man has broken into a house he shall be killed before the breach and buried there.” Meaning:

The meaning of this law is that when a someone who wants to either steal something or wants to just suddenly barge and break into someone else’s

house, they have to be killed and buried in the other person’s house that they’re trying to break into.

Existence: In this generation, If a man has broken into

someone’s house and gets caught, they’re not going to be killed and buried in that person’s house.

Instead, they go to the jail, and to the court to give their reasoning to why they were trying to break into

someone’s house.

Agreement/Disagreement:I sort of agree and sort of don’t agree with this law, I think

that the person who tries to break into someone’s house and if they get caught, they should give a reasoning and if

they’re not lying, then they’re free and give them another chance. But, in the other hand, I agree with this law, I

agree that if some stranger broke into someone else’s house, that they should be killed but maybe not “buried” in that

person’s house.

Punishment: If people disobey this rule, the law giver/empire have

no choice but to try to track down by forcing their guards to find them, where that person who broke into

someone’s house is. But, that is only if that person is caught, and in the end, when they are dead, they MUST be buried in the person that they were breaking into’s

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THE END-THANK YOU

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Works Cited

✤ http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.asp

✤ http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b1hammurabi.htm

✤ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

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

✤ http://www.biography.com/people/hammurabi-9327033

✤ http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/hammurabi.html

✤ http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4239/the-code-of-hammurabiTuesday, January 31, 2012