WORLD CIVILIZATION

CIVILIZATION

SUMERIAN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Hammurabi’s code was basically a harsh legal system an ____ ____ ____ ____
A
Tongue for Cheek
B
eye for an eye
C
slap on the wrist
D
Death Penalty
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The code followed the principle of lex talionis, the law of retributive justice where the criminal gets punishment equal to the one they inflicted on the victim i.e., “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Code of Hammurabi includes many harsh punishments, sometimes demanding the removal of the guilty party’s tongue, hands, breasts, eye or ear. But the code is also one of the earliest examples of an accused person being considered innocent until proven guilty.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -eye for an eye, in law and custom, the principle of retaliation for injuries or damages. In ancient Babylonian, biblical, Roman, and Islāmic law, it was a principle operative in private and familial settlements, intended to limit retaliation, and often satisfied by a money payment or other equivalent.

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