Hammurabi ruler of Babylon, he claims to be the king of righteousness and wrote the code of laws to protect the weak, but these laws are unfair (Doc B). 4,000 centuries ago Hammurabi ruled Babylon for 42 years, and Babylon is approximately 400 miles. The three social classes in Babylon that you could be are landowners, free people, and slaves. A lot of people lived there at the time. There was about 1,000,000 people there, so Hammurabi was very busy. (BGE) Was Hammurabi’s Code of Laws just? Hammurabi’s code was not fair because of its family laws, property laws, and personal injury laws. One examples injustice is the people who care about us most the family law. In law 195 it said if a son has struck his father, his hands shall be cut off
