Hammurabi's Code: Backchannel Discussion - 9th Period by Mr. Krason https://padlet.com/pkrason/388a6k9tlpy1 Do think a specific primary source document below helps prove that Hammurabi's Code is fair? Unfair? Comment about it adding the specific evidence you think proves your point. en-us 2018-10-10 18:25:29 UTC 2026-01-17 22:07:23 UTC hello@padlet.com pkrason https://padlet.com/pkrason/388a6k9tlpy1/wish/291415947 Law 215: If a surgeon has operated on the body of a free man, and he saves the man’s life, the surgeon shall receive 10 shekels of silver.

Law 218: If a surgeon operated on a free man for a serious injury, and has caused his death, the surgeon’s hands shall be cut off.

Law 229: If a builder builds a house for someone, and he does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

Law 235: If a shipbuilder builds a boat for someone, and does not make it tight, if during that same year that boat is sent away and suffers injury, the shipbuilder shall take the boat apart and put it together tight at his own expense. The tight boat he shall give to the boat owner.

Law 236: If a man rents his boat to a sailor, and the sailor is careless, and the boat is wrecked or goes aground, the sailor shall give the owner of the boat another boat as compensation.
]]> 2018-10-10 18:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pkrason/388a6k9tlpy1/wish/291415947 pkrason https://padlet.com/pkrason/388a6k9tlpy1/wish/291415948 Law 21: If a man breaks a hole into a house (breaks in to steal), he shall be put to death before the hole he has made.

Law 23: If the robber is not caught, the man who has been robbed shall formally declare to the gods whatever he has lost, and the city and the mayor in whose territory the robbery has been committed shall replace whatever the man has lost.

Law 48: If a man has borrowed money to plant crops and farm his fields but a storm floods his field or carries away his crops, in that year he does not have to pay his creditor.
 
Law 53, 54: If a man digs a trench in his farm for irrigating his plants, and the waters flood his neighbor’s field, the man must repair his neighbor’s damaged crops.  
]]> 2018-10-10 18:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pkrason/388a6k9tlpy1/wish/291415948 pkrason https://padlet.com/pkrason/388a6k9tlpy1/wish/291415950 Law 196: If a man has put out the eye of a free man, his eye shall be put out.

Law 197: If a man breaks another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.

Law 199: If a man has put out the eye of a slave, he shall pay the slave’s owner half the value of the slave.

Law 209: If a man strikes the daughter of a free man, he shall pay 10 shekels of silver.

Law 213: If a man strikes the slave-girl of a free man, he shall pay 2 shekels of silver.

Law 206: If during an argument one man strikes another and wounds him, then he shall swear, "I did not injure him wittingly," and pay the cost of the injured man’s doctor.
]]> 2018-10-10 18:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pkrason/388a6k9tlpy1/wish/291415950 Section at the end of the code that serves as a conclusion to what was stated. Source: Excerpts from the Epilogue of Hammurabi’s Code, around 1754 BCE. pkrason https://padlet.com/pkrason/388a6k9tlpy1/wish/291415952 … Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. …I wrote these precious words upon this stone so that the strong might not injure the weak and to protect widows and orphans. 

…By the command of Shamash, the great god and judge of heaven and earth, let righteousness go forth in the land.  Let no destruction befall my monument. Let my name be ever repeated.  Let the oppressed read these inscriptions, and understand my precious words…

…In future time, through all coming generations, let future kings observe these words of righteousness which I have written on my monument.  Let them not alter the law of the land which I have given.

If a ruler does not honor my words or destroys the law which I have given, may the great gods of heaven and earth inflict a curse upon his family, his land, his warriors, and his subjects.



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