Ancient Civilization: The Code Of Hammurabi

When the first civilization had walked on earth, they may have been brought to every circumstance that life on earth had to offer them. As people of science found proofs of these, people of faith continuously thrive to explain and reason out why. Ancient creatures fought for their survival and most of them didn 't. But when humans made it through, our evolution and existence shaped the world to what it is today. The Code of Hammurabi, the laws that shaped early civilization in the Middle East and originated in Babylonia, has proven itself as a revolutionary moment which provided the “moral standards” and thrived on the equality sense of people back then. As it was claimed by King Hammurabi, the rules given by the sun god, it gave him power to rule and establish a society with the first “norms” in human history. As one would have think, how did early people then live without any rules in life? It could probably be pictured as “do whatever you want and fight for your survival”. The code has traveled from Babylonia towards the Nile and other parts of the world which provided laws of fair …show more content…
In this assignment, I evidently proved that civilizations grow and change. A leader can make a great difference and a set of laws can affect greatly how people in the future will live. War, in its sense may be truly bad and may be a result of a cause of inevitable growth of population, or a method to collect resources for people to live, or a dream to fulfill the expansion of one’s territory. All of these facts and stories may contribute to an overwhelming “standards norms” in the future and the possibility of a higher morality development of humankind in the future. For all the great laws and people who lived and touched the earth, all the conflicts, victories and discoveries there will be, would summarize the definition “ human life” on earth where “ History repeats itself ” is nothing but a