HISTORY
THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST AND EGYPT 3200 BC500 BC
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applied to the royal household.
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used prisons as punishment.
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were set down in writing.
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did not apply to anyone in the royal household.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Code is important because it influenced other rulers like the Roman ruler Justinian. The statutes defined legal obligations and reparations in civil, family, and criminal law. Hammurabi Code examples include statutes that provided severe punishment for criminals, sometimes even death.
Detailed explanation-2: -To better administer his kingdom, he issued a set of codes or laws to standardize rules and regulations and administer a universal sense of justice.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although Hammurabi’s Code was the first Mesopotamian law collection to be discovered, it was not the first written; several earlier collections survive. These collections were written in Sumerian and Akkadian. They also purport to have been written by rulers.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hammurabi ruled Babylon from about 1792 to 1750 BCE. He is noted for his surviving set of laws, which were inscribed on a stela in Babylon’s temple of Marduk. Hammurabi’s Code was once considered the oldest promulgation of laws in human history, though older, shorter law collections have since been found.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Code of Hammurabi (also known as the Codex Hammurabi and Hammurabi’s Code), created ca. 1780 BC ( short chronology), is one of the earliest extant sets of laws and one of the best preserved examples of this type of document from ancient Mesopotamia.