Hammurabi Influence On Ancient Civilization

Throughout the development of time, many great civilizations have created a base for which all civilizations are created and maintained. Many people seem to forget that the way their community is formed had to come from somewhere and not just out of a hat. Now, people do not really move around to different areas because we do not have to follow food sources like they had to. While nomadic tribes were very common and in some area still present many things traveled along with them. Government, society, slavery, religion, language, and education were formed and further developed in order to keep civilizations evolving. What every civilization need is a structure in which provides boundaries for the people or many areas would have fallen to chaos. Governments make up this structure. In early civilizations many relied on a monarchy. For Assyria their king was also their head priest which combined church and state. Babylonian church and state were separate but the priestesses were majority of the time royal princesses. A princess would only be a priestess to a god that was either assigned, chosen, or …show more content…
To make a common day connection, the Laws of Hammurabi could be compared to the Constitution. The Laws of Hammurabi are broken up into three different sections based on size. The largest of the sections pertains to the laws related to internal affairs among people. This includes protection, marriage, adoption, and inheritance. The second section pertains to land. How it is given out and what powers it gave people were specific parts that Hammurabi had the most entanglements over. The third section dealt with trade and financial transactions. This brought forth debts, issuing contracts, defaults, and interest rates. These sections all go back to what do the people need the most guidance in. One thing that should have never been started was a huge part of how their society was