Around the year 2000 B.C.E., the rulers of Babylon integrated all of the surrounding regions of Sumer to organize the First Babylonian Empire. In order to successfully unite these regions, a strong and advantageous leader known as Hammurabi was chosen as the sixth King of the Babylonian Empire. Hammurabi developed a system of collecting a culmination of the local statutes and the existing legal practice codes and combined 282 laws with scaled punishments into one single body of law, known as Hammurabi’s Code.
Hammurabi’s Code was not bound by spiritual basis but was rather representative of the activities and behaviors of the Babylonian society’s everyday life. The code prevented the Monarchy from having complete control over the laws, resulting in consistency and a less chance of laws being changed inappropriately. On page 26, Ch. 1, “Hammurabi’s Code covers a broad spectrum of moral, social, and commercial obligations. Its civil and criminal statutes specify penalties for murder, theft, incest, adultery, kidnapping, assault and battery and many other crimes.” It also housed information relating to human rights. Hammurabi’s Code was basically written as an, “eye for an eye” concept. The code states that individuals were not all considered as equals in the eyes of Babylonian law. A human’s life was valued only by their wealth and social status. When a crime …show more content…
Each and every woman, famous or not has contributed a great deal to civilizations around the world since the beginning of time. Women are the givers of life, which to me is a super power and a great contribution to all of humanity. They have been the major caregivers and nurturers of their children and families for millions of years. I will be discussing some of the limitations that they have faced since the beginning of the first civilizations, as well as the independence that they received in these