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The code of Hammurabi was issued by Hammurabi, the ruler of Babylonia.

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It was a written code of rules. The law is that if anyone committed a robbery and is caught he shall be put to death, if he destroys the eye of a mans slavery he shall pay half of the price,also if a man destroys a bone or eye of a man they may do the same, if one man destroys the eye of a free man or bone he must pay one mina of sliver, and if a herdsman to those who care cattle or sheep have been entrusted  be guilty they shall be convicted and pay the owner ten times the loss.

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In about 1750 B.C.E, the legal decisions of king hammurabi.

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It was developed in Babylonia, an ancient middle eastern empire.

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During the ancient times, the people of Mesopotamia lived under the rule of the Babylonian king, Hammurabi. Hammurabi created his code of laws, which consist of 282 laws, in the year 1750.

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Hammurabi had a huge impact in modern government because it was one of the first written documents that talked about government. It shaped many governments by giving them a outline for how to write the government out.

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''The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful''

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''If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye''

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''If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye''

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Were the penalties for crimes in ancient Babylonia harsher how than today?would you account for the differences?

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Were the penalties for crimes in ancient Babylonia harsher how than today?would you account for the differences?

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Each law consists of a potential case followed by a prescribed verdict. The verdicts could be very harsh indeed,the punishments ordered were by no means uniform but rather depended on the social status of the accused and the accuser. The punishments were only “eye for an eye” if the two individuals involved were socially equal.

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Which of the laws above were to deter crime, and which were to compensate a victim losses? explain your answer.

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Which of the laws above were to deter crime, and which were to compensate a victim losses? explain your answer.

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Law 22 would deter crime because if one were to commits a crime their punishment is to be put to death. Law 265 compensates to a victims loss because if someone is convicted of fraud they must pay the owner ten times the loss

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How were the penalties for hurting another person different depending on his or her social status?

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How were the penalties for hurting another person different depending on his or her social status?

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In typical cases of punishment,persons who posses authority impose designedly unpleasant consequences upon, and express their condemnation of, other persons who are capable of choice and who have breached established standards of behavior.

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Why were the penalties for fraud in caring for animals so strict?

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Why were the penalties for fraud in caring for animals so strict?

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This notion of using an "eye for and eye" type punishment can certainly be applied to many different sorts of crimes, but because including crimes against humans opens up a whole new realm of arguments and conditions, I'd like to keep this discussion limited specifically to animal cruelty cases.

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What was the importance of the Hammurabi code?

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What was the importance of the Hammurabi code?

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Hammurabi’s Code provides some of the earliest examples of the doctrine of “lex talionis,” or the laws of retribution, sometimes better known as “an eye for an eye.”