CIVILIZATION
ASSYRIAN
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Question
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People were treated equally under Hammurabi’s Code
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The principal (and only considerable) source of the Code of Hammurabi is the stela discovered at Susa in 1901 by the French Orientalist Jean-Vincent Scheil and now preserved in the Louvre. This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hammurabi’s Code also, reveals inequality between social classes. Slaves were not treated by the laws the same as free-born people. According to the Code of Hammurabi, women had some legal rights, but these rights were not equal to men’s. Married women had a right to divorce as well as men.
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