COMPANION READER ESSAY #1 The Chines and Roman societies in the period of 300 BCE to 300 CE were globalizing empires that influenced the world in many ways. This included new innovative farming methods, technological advances, political governing, military doctrines, culture and religion. They were no doubt huge influencers during their reign and still very much so today. However one huge influence that isn’t talked about very often is the role of some women that were able to shape both of the empires politically. Women weren’t thought of as very influential during the ancient times as it is commonly thought that until recent century or so women were oppressed by man and lived by their hand, but that is not entirely true. In Rome during the rule of Augustus Caesar his wife, Livia was a huge political
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If the finger have been pointed at the wife of a man because of another man, and she have not been taken in lying with another man, for her husband’s sake she shall throw herself into the river.
209. If a man strike a man’s daughter and bring about a miscarriage, he shall pay 10 shekels of silver for her miscarriage.
These few excerpts or laws from The Code of Hammurabi can be used to infer that women at the time were the property or under the authority of their husbands/fathers and wealth should be determined by husband/father and not by the woman of the family. The social order of ancient Babylon should be put over the individual rights of women or slaves.
A great example of this being the opposite during the era of Roman and Chines rule, is in the story talked about earlier of the Duke Zhuang and his mother. After years of having his mother in exile he went against his own law to release her and come to god terms with her, not concerned of the social order. From the Roman rule when Augustus Caesar died he left over 1/3 of his inheritance to Livia, he had to go to the senate to get special permission for this as this was against the common law at the
If the finger have been pointed at the wife of a man because of another man, and she have not been taken in lying with another man, for her husband’s sake she shall throw herself into the river.
209. If a man strike a man’s daughter and bring about a miscarriage, he shall pay 10 shekels of silver for her miscarriage.
These few excerpts or laws from The Code of Hammurabi can be used to infer that women at the time were the property or under the authority of their husbands/fathers and wealth should be determined by husband/father and not by the woman of the family. The social order of ancient Babylon should be put over the individual rights of women or slaves.
A great example of this being the opposite during the era of Roman and Chines rule, is in the story talked about earlier of the Duke Zhuang and his mother. After years of having his mother in exile he went against his own law to release her and come to god terms with her, not concerned of the social order. From the Roman rule when Augustus Caesar died he left over 1/3 of his inheritance to Livia, he had to go to the senate to get special permission for this as this was against the common law at the