Landau, Elaine. The Babylonians. N.p.: n.p., 2010. 39-44. Print. Hammurabi's Babylonia.


The start of laws were in Babylon. That was in Mesopotamia. The King who made the first set of rules was named Hammurabi. He wanted justice, or in other words, everything fair. The set of rules that he made was called, "Code of Hammurabi". A lot of his rules were fair for his time, but not for our time, for example, if a builder sells a house and the house kills the owner, then the builder is killed. If the house kills the owners son, then the builders son is killed. I think that for the most part the beginning of this law is fair, but I don't think that the sons dieing is fair. An example of I rule that I think is fair is if a witness lies in court and the person being accused has a death penalty than it is fair if the witness dies. Also if it is about houses the witness that lies would have to pay a fine. A law that I find completely unfair is someone steals another persons slave that persons slave will be killed. Some of the rules they had then are similar to ours such as if your animal attacks someone that the owner would have to pay a big fine. Though a lot of these rules are not fair the rules that Hammurabi made are the bases of all the laws we have now.