Hammurabi's Code Dbq Analysis

Hammurabi's Code: Was It Just? Just image that you have knocked out the eye of a free man, your eye shall be knocked out too. Is that fair? Hammurabi was the king of Babylonia, around 1750 BCE. When Hammurabi became king, he was believed to get his powers from the gods. Hammurabi’s code was his laws, and people still discuss whether they were just or not, just means fair. Hammurabi’s Code can be shown to be just in three areas of law, which are family life, personal life, and personal property. First, examples of justice can be found in the area of family life. From law 148 it says,” If a man had married a wife and a disease has seized her, if he is determined to marry a second wife he shall marry her… she shall dwell in the house they have built together, and he shall maintain her as long as she lives,”( Document C). This law is just because, a man should be able to have a healthy wife to take care of the kids, farm, and weave, or more while the man’s first wife is sick, and is unable to take care of her family.
From law 168, it states,” If a man has determined to disinherit his son...the judge shall inquire into the son’s past, and, if the son has not committed a grave misdemeanor…, the …show more content…
From the law 196 it says,” If a man has knocked out the eye of a free man, his eye shall be knocked out,”( Document E). This is fair because, you want to treat people how you want to be treated, so if you knocked out an eye of a free man, you want to be treated like that. Hammurabi made his Code so it was fair to everyone, and it is fair you get your eye knocked out too. From law 215 it states,”If a surgeon has operated with a bronze lancet on the body of a free man… and saves the man’s life, he shall receive 10 shekels of silver,”(Document D). This is fair because, you have just saved a man’s life, the surgeon should be rewarded for doing his job right, and the free man is now fixed and can start