Hummurabis Code
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History is the past, which for the most part can not be scientificately proven. The real; goal of History is to rediscover past. A dramatic error happens when past is rediscovered from our own bias that is from the way we see it. Even certain artifacts and works pf literature that we have left from earlier civilizations can be interpreted in several different ways, or misinterpreted to a certain extend or entirely. Usually interpretation or even misinterpretation is affected bu the concept of ethnocentrism, where different communities have an already set up establishment of certain norms based on their own believes, traditions, social, legislative, and ...
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98) presents Hammurabi�s Code as a �Law Code� of king Hammurabi. It was, in turn something quite different from a Code of Laws existing in our judicial and legislative structure of government and society. Hammurabi�s Code- �A law Code� or a set of royal decisions??? As written in Mesopotamia: The Mighty Kings, (p26), the code consists if 282 laws that are branched at the beginning and end by a prologue and epilogue. The �Code� touches almost every aspect of everyday life in Babylonya. As the prologue states, the laws were supposedly written �to promote the welfare of the people,�to cause just to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, that the strong might not oppress the weak� ( The Human Record, p 12). Furthermore, just like a real Law Code, each �law� is written in the form of conditional sentence: in which the phrase is introduced by a certain condition, �if� and the consequence follows �then�. Another fact makes Hammurabi�s �Code� so similar to the U.S. ...
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led to the collapse of a home and the death of owner could expect to be put to death himself. Another, even more savage condition takes place when a woman who happen to neglect her house and family and humiliate her husband, would be forced to undergo �trial-by-water� (Mesopotamia, p134). Such primitive ideas seem totally radical and astonishing to American ideology based on Thomas Jefferson�s ideas of �certain unalienable Rights�Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness�� (United States History and Government, p13). However, sticking to the original goal of History (to rediscover, and learn the original past), and setting aside our ethnocentric motives, we should attempt to look at this ...
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