The Consequences Of The Law Code Of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi was written by the sixth king of Amorite, King Hammurabi. He was the king from 1792-1750 BCE. Hammurabi used political maneuvers, military campaigns, created new alliances, tricked the Amorites into fighting with one another and then conquered them after they used all of their resources. The kingdom blossomed over time and they even created the first ever wheel which was a big advancement for man. The law code of Hammurabi contained 282 clauses regarding legal issues. The law code was engraved into an 8 foot pillar of basalt making it the first ever written down law. The penalty for not following the laws would end in a severe punishment, but if you look at the punishment and then compare it to now a days we can see the …show more content…
If someone was to hear another person conspiring to rob a bank, kidnap someone, kill someone or even plan a terrorist attack and that person does not inform the police about what they have heard then they can be charged with being an accomplice. And depending on how severe or what the crime is the person who never said anything could be sentenced for life or worse they could get the death penalty. This is yet another example of how similar the law works now compared to the Hammurabi code.
Over thousands of years ago the Hammurabi code was engraved into a pillar and even though a lot of development and changes have happened from then to now it is just so difficult to similarities between our present day law and the oldest law code. Our criminal justice system, some of our beliefs or old sayings that we have go all the way back to Amorite. It all just started with the birth of a little baby boy who would someday become King and the greatest ruler in Western