Hammurabi’s code and the Twelve Tables were both codes of law used in ancient times. Even though Hammurabi’s code and the Twelve Tables were made about one thousand years apart they have many similarities and differences. To start with, the Twelve Tables are very similar to Hammurabi’s code, most likely due to the fact that Romans assimilated different cultures into their own. Both Hammurabi’s code and Roman law did not believe in equal rights for everyone especially people of lower social classes. For example, in Hammurabi’s code if a man puts out the eye of someone of a higher rank than his eye will be put out, but if a man puts out the eye of a slave “he shall pay half of that slave’s price.” In the Twelve Tables if “anyone knocks a tooth
