Hammurabi Dbq Analysis

Why Hammurabi’s Code was not Just “Off with the hands” said Hammurabi. This happened because a surgeon has killed a patient with a bronze lancet. Hammurabi had stated his rule only ruling Babylon he ruled this city-state for 30 of his 42 years in rule. Later he took victories in Mari and Larsa in order to have a giant kingdom. Then in his 38th year of rule he created his code which consisted of 282 laws which were carved on a large pillar like stone. Hammurabi’s code was not just as it explains in Family law, Property law, and Personal Injury law.

Hammurabi’s code was not just as it explains in Family law. In law 195 from Document C it states If a son has struck his father, his hands shall be cut off. This is not fair because what if the son had to strike in self-defense because his father was going to beat him to the son’s death. In law 129 from Document C it states if a married lady is caught in adultery with another man, they shall bind them and cast them into water. This is not fair because has no right in who she should marry and doesn’t have the right to divorce. Therefore she might not be with the man she

In law 48 from Document D states that if a man has borrowed money to plant crops and a storm has washed away his crops in that year he does not have to pay his creditor. This is not fair to the creditor because the creditor has just lost money because a storm that he couldn’t stop wiped the field of whoever borrowed money from him. So the guy who borrowed money from the creditor should have to pay him back. In law 21 from Document D as it states if a man has pierced a hole in the wall of a home to commit robbery, and has been caught they shall put him to death and pierce him or hang him in the hole that he has made. The punishment is too harsh for this crime, Hammurabi should have made the punishment for the robber to give what he stole, use his money to fix the wall, and then put him in