Hammurabi's Code - 1750 BCE
Hammurabi's Code was the first time in history that the laws were written down and was made avaible to the public. It was also the first time that the everyone know their punishments for breaking the laws. Hammurabi was also the first person in the world to decide that everyone should know their laws and have the same every time they hear them. Reather then in the pass when they were pass down verbally and were easily changed with each telling. The punishment Hammurabi used weren't always fair for all classes of people, but this was the first step towards having laws. Hammurabi also had people stand out reading aloud the laws written down so that no one could clam they didn't know them. This is important because if Hammurabi never bother to write his laws down we would not have the laws system we do to day. The police and the goverment would feel no need to tell us the laws and so we wouldl never known if we had broken them.
This is a picture of one of the pillars that Hammurabi's code was written on. At the top of the pillar is a depiction of Hammurabi resiving the laws for the sun god and god the of justice, Shamash
1 The picture on the right is the time of writing that the laws where written in. Hammurabi's code had 282
2 laws. Some of Hammurabi's laws are; If a son was to strike at his father he shall have his hands cut off; or if he had committed a serious crime his father would have legal grounds to disinherit him. Leaving him no place in the family
2, If a free man was to cause blindness of a member of the aristocracy he too should be caused to be blind
2, or If a member of the aristocracy or upper class was to cause blindness of or break the bone of a commoner then he should pay the court one mina of silver
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Hammurabi's Code was the first time in history that the laws were written down and was made avaible to the public. It was also the first time that the everyone know their punishments for breaking the laws. Hammurabi was also the first person in the world to decide that everyone should know their laws and have the same every time they hear them. Reather then in the pass when they were pass down verbally and were easily changed with each telling. The punishment Hammurabi used weren't always fair for all classes of people, but this was the first step towards having laws. Hammurabi also had people stand out reading aloud the laws written down so that no one could clam they didn't know them. This is important because if Hammurabi never bother to write his laws down we would not have the laws system we do to day. The police and the goverment would feel no need to tell us the laws and so we wouldl never known if we had broken them. 
This is a picture of one of the pillars that Hammurabi's code was written on. At the top of the pillar is a depiction of Hammurabi resiving the laws for the sun god and god the of justice, Shamash 1 The picture on the right is the time of writing that the laws where written in. Hammurabi's code had 282 2 laws. Some of Hammurabi's laws are; If a son was to strike at his father he shall have his hands cut off; or if he had committed a serious crime his father would have legal grounds to disinherit him. Leaving him no place in the family 2, If a free man was to cause blindness of a member of the aristocracy he too should be caused to be blind 2, or If a member of the aristocracy or upper class was to cause blindness of or break the bone of a commoner then he should pay the court one mina of silver 2. 
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