CIVILIZATION
BABYLONIAN
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Question
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he would go to jail.
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he would be put to death
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his son would be put to death.
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he would have to pay five gold pieces.
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Detailed explanation-1: -If it causes the death of the son of the owner of the house, they shall put to death a son of that builder.
Detailed explanation-2: -If a son strikes his father, they shall cut off his hand.
Detailed explanation-3: -If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the best surviving examples of the code is written on the “diorite stele". The diorite stele is a large stone shaped like a giant finger. It is about seven feet tall and two feet wide. It contains around 4000 lines of text describing 282 different laws.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Hammurabi code of laws, a collection of 282 rules, established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice. Hammurabi’s Code was carved onto a massive, finger-shaped black stone stele (pillar) that was looted by invaders and finally rediscovered in 1901.