hammurabi laws

HammurabiBy: Rendy

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Who was Hammurabi?Hammurabi is the sixth ruler of Babylon and the greatest ruler in the first Babylon dynasty. He is best known for creating the earliest law.

Where was he from?Hammurabi was from Babylon.


What time frame/Era was Hammurabi from?

Hammurabi Era was from 1810 BC to 1750 BC.

How many laws did he write? On what?

Hammurabi wrote 282 laws and he wrote it in a large stone monument.


What language is it written in?

It is written in Akkadian language.

Where is the artifact held today?The artifact is held in The Louvre in Paris it is put as a display so people can see it.


Laws and Punishment

Rule 229: If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then hat builder shall be put to death.

It mean that if a builder build someone a house and the builder did not make it properly and the house collapse. It kills the owner and then the builder will be killed.


Laws and punishment

Rule 236: If a man rent his boat to a sailor, and the sailor is careless, and the boat is wrecked or goes aground, the sailor shall give the owner of the boat another boat as compensation.

The rule mean if a man let a sailor borrow his boat and the sailor did not take care of the boat properly. If the boat is broken. The sailor have to give the owner of the boat a another boat.


Laws and Punishment

Rule 238: If a sailor wreck any one’s ship, but saves it, he shall pay the half of its value in money.

The rule mean If a sailor damage any someone ship, but the sailor saves it. He will pay half of its value in money.


Laws and Punishment

Rule 240: If a merchantman run against a ferryboat, wreck it, the master of the ship that was wrecked shall seek justice before God; the master of the merchantman, which wrecked the ferryboat, must compensate the owner for the boat and all that he ruined.

The rule mean if a merchantman use a ferryboat, and broke the ferryboat, the master of the ferryboat that was broken shall seek justice before God. The merchantman must pay all the things that he broke on the ferryboat.


Laws and Punishment

Rule 263: If he kill the cattle or sheep that were given to him, he shall compensate the owner with cattle for cattle and sheep for sheep.

The rule mean if someone kill the cattle or sheep that was given to him by someone. He have to pay the owner by giving him another cattle or another sheep.


Does this law still exist today in your own system?

Some of Hammurabi rules is still used and it is use in the Middle East. Where Mesopotamia existed (Mesopotamia is an ancient region of the southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern day of Iraq).


Bibliography

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_was_Hammurabi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.asp

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_is_the_Code_of_Hammurabi_laws_used_in_today's_society_in_other_countries














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