Don’t you hate it when you are not treated equal or mislead? Hammurabi had biased and unequal rulings that involved landowners, free people, and slaves. He had 282 laws and he was not open to changing even though some of them were not fair. Hammurabi was alive in the 18th century B.C., this is when he established his code. He ruled Babylonia for 40 years. Was Hammurabi’s laws fair? Hammurabi's laws were unfair because he manipulated his people, he wasn’t open to any change in his laws, and lastly he treated his people unjustly. Hammurabi manipulated his people into think that his laws came directly from Shamash. For example Doc A says, Shamash is a god. Hammurabi says that Shamash advised him in a meeting with the laws. But there is no evidence to prove this meeting really happened. So he could’ve lied to his people by convincing him the god Shamash told him these laws so that his people would follow these rules. From Doc B, it quotes Hammurabi taking props of the rules that he said the god Shamash came up with. Which this shows that he lied to his people. He lied because before he said it was the god's rules …show more content…
For instance, from Doc D, it states a law, this law was law 48. This law was if a man borrowed some money to plant his fields and a natural cause took place and ruined his fields in the same year that man that borrowed money he does not have to pay his creditor. A creditor is the loaner. This is not balanced because now that loaner is out of that money when that other person took a risk farming at that time. Another case from Doc E, is law 199. This law is if a man knocked an slave's eye out he would only have to pay half the value. But still from Doc E, law 196, says if a man has knocked out the eye of a free man his eye should be knocked out as well. This is not fair because they are all humans and should be treated the same, This shows that his people were held in different values and that his laws were not