CIVILIZATION
AKKADIAN
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Question
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civil law
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land law
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criminal law
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family law
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Detailed explanation-1: -If the wife of a man is caught lying with another man, they shall bind them and throw them into the water. If the husband of the woman wishes to spare his wife, then the king shall spare his servant.
Detailed explanation-2: -He got prepared the world’s first Code of Laws. He also got it engraved on a very big stone shaft in the form of 282 articles. These laws were connected with trade, exchange of money, payment of taxes, theft, murder etc. Most of the laws were based on the principal of “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth".
Detailed explanation-3: -During his reign, which lasted from 1792 to his death in 1750 B.C., Hammurabi in many ways also served as a model for how to combine military power, diplomatic finesse and political skill to build and control an empire that stretched from the Persian Gulf inland for 250 miles along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.