Hammurabi came into power as a young man. Although he was young, he had already gained respect and trust will many powerful duties. In the early years of his rule, projects such as repairs, trading deals, and expansion were the corriculum. But as he aged, so did his wisdom. He began to have more specific laws than most. Eventually, he had his 282 laws etched on stone in Cuneiform. These would be the governing laws of all his people. People then knew all the punishments and consequences for breaking the laws, and they knew what they must due when accusing a criminal. (We know what we must do on Saturday to Woodstock, don't we?) Hammurabi created a set of moral codes that was to be copied and used by

The Codes of Law were broken into certain categories. These categories are not definitely known, but the majority of historians believe them to be: family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade and business. Many think the codes were too strict and the punishments too harsh. Hammurabi just believed that the punishment should fit the crime and that the strong should not dominate the weak.

Hammurabi was more than just a man. He was a man with a plan. And his plan was to construct a tablet of laws for all the world to know. The people of his empire could learn these laws, and the whole civilization would be a better place. So he did construct this table of 8 foot high black stone (it now can be found in the Louve Museum in Paris. I have been there, and it was awesome.) It contained 282 laws. What these laws stated is usually represented by the statement, "Eye for an Eye, Tooth for a Tooth." This means that most of the laws had near equal or equal punishments for the crimes. If you knocked a man's eye out, your eye would be knocked out. Many people of today consider these laws too strict and too hard on the accused. I do think they are very harsh and sometimes extreme, but I do think they are justified. I also know that I love our country, our country runs by the constitution, and the Constitution contains the same principles and ideas that first came to be when a young man named Hammurabi took his th

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