Hammurabi\'s Code of Laws

King Hammurabi was the linguistic rule of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C.E. Believing that he was bestowed with the chest over Babylon by the leave alone of Babylonian god, Marduk, Hammurabi saw it as his responsibility to protect the interests of his subjects by laying down a set of 282 laws that were believed to treat all(a) the different gradees of people in Babylon under a resembling legislation of referee, that would unify and unite the entire empire by setting a bench mark for righteous values and equality in classes. The law ordinance is believed to have been presented to Hammurabi by the fair weather god and god of justice, Shamash, in whose name Hammurabi fulfilled the moral responsibility imposed on him as a divinely installed monarch  (Hunt et al), by creating a system that would guarantee justice being delivered righteously, irrelevant of class or stature in society. \nThe law cipher is in itself an insight into the time and elaboration of the Babylonian ci vilization in the way that it lends a electron lens into the elements of class structure, gender roles, intolerance of thie real or conjuring and importance of receipts and contracts in the Babylonian society. The purpose of this newspaper publisher is to develop upon these key elements by drawing examples from the law edict itself and elaborate on how the code is an illustration of the Babylonian culture. The very first of the key elements that stands break in Hammurabis Law statute is the class structure. The code segregates the Babylonian society into three principal(preno mynah birdl) classes: the free persons, the commoners and the slaves. While the code boasts of providing justice to everyone equally and protect the weaker (or poorer) people against exploitation, the contrary seems to be true. For instance, the law If a aristocratical has knocked give away the tooth of a gentlemans gentleman that is his equal, his tooth shall be knocked out. If he has knocked out t he tooth of a plebeian, he shall kick in one-third of a mina of silver. In the stated law, the patricians be the free people ...