Today in West Civ, we went over the Hammurabi's Code in class. Some of the laws in that code are absolutely crazy! We also learned that back in ancient Babylon, all people didn't have the same rights- like in one of the laws it had one that said a normal citizen could be put to death for just hitting a rich man but if the rich man did something bad, they would only have to pay a small amount of money for the crime.
We saw that's it's a little but like today. If I rich person commits a crime depending on if it's minor to a major one, they have enough money to get the best of lawyers that they pay to lie on their behalf or sometimes they pay off the judge.
The Code of Hammurabi is a very interesting piece of law, it's the first set of laws that are still accessible to the world. I also think that, with reading some of those laws we can be happy that they aren't still in affect...
The Babylonian "government" really favored the rich, cutting off various body parts and their river...
Oh! And thanks to Veronica and his cookies, we have a little extra time to study for the test that is now on Thursday!!
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