Logan Smithwick Government by

Government Claim

819230_1 — 2024-10-07 14:47:48 UTC

The characteristic that had the most influence on the Sumerian/Mesopotamian society is Goverment.

Evidence #1

819230_1 — 2024-10-07 14:55:10 UTC

Some evidence to support this is that According to Document 2: Government it says,”In the Code of Hammurabi, the laws concerned daily life, business, medicine, property, and family”

Evidence #2

819230_1 — 2024-10-07 14:57:20 UTC

Some other evidence that supports this is in Document 5: Government it says,”It is important because it created a set of rules that helped govern a civilization while trying to protect people even if they had little political power.”

Map of Mesopotamia

819230_1 — 2024-10-07 15:10:50 UTC

This is a map of where they lived

Counter Claim

819230_1 — 2024-10-08 14:49:09 UTC

However, some may think that social structure is the most important because of how it helped people know where they were in society and so that nobody thought they were more powerful than they were.

Reasoning #1

819230_1 — 2024-10-08 14:55:32 UTC

This evidence shows that these laws were important in everyday life for people. It also shows that the laws helped people with almost everything. Although this would be very hard to follow because there were so many laws. This is very important because it makes it so that people have to follow something and not run wild.

Reasoning #2

819230_1 — 2024-10-08 14:56:20 UTC

In this we can see that the laws helped people and it was important because they didn’t want people just running wild. It is also important because they made laws so that people had to follow something and there were some rules. These laws were more fair than most laws back then so they helped people who weren't as rich.

Explanation

819230_1 — 2024-10-08 15:01:41 UTC

Goverment impacted Mesopotamian society by the consequenses and how they could punish people really badly for small things that they did. Another reason is they could make all the laws and tell people what they could do.

Reasoning #3

819230_1 — 2024-10-08 15:05:18 UTC

In this we can see that Social Structure is also very important to people and it can help them with there civilization. This shows that the king had a lot of power and people with little power would get punished worse than richer people

Evidence #3

819230_1 — 2024-10-09 14:28:54 UTC

The text supports this by saying,”punishments often fit the crime by demanding and “eye for an eye” or a “tooth for a tooth”