Explain The Hammurabi Code About The Social And Family Structure Of Mesopotamia

1) What can you tell from the Hammurabi code about the social and family structure of Mesopotamia?

The social structure of Mesopotamia was ruled by kings who were supported by an army, a bureaucracy, a judicial system, and educated priestly classes. The ruler usually obtained advice from prominent leaders such as rich landowners, wealthy merchants, priests, and military chief. The ruler shared power with economic and military elite. The next groups of the social scale are the craftspeople, low level business people and traders. Below them (at the bottom) were slaves, who their economies were based, they had been captured in war or had fallen into debt. The family structures were father, husband, children and wife. The marriages were arranged by parents

The agricultural civilizations insist on harsh punishments for crimes because agriculture dominated the economy, was the principal income and was what made the production increased wealth allowing people to thrive.

4) What religious and magical beliefs does the document suggest?

The Mesopotamian religion alleged that the gods had created human beings to serve them. The gods were in complete control and the human beings have no choice that obeys. They beliefs their gods lived in the same way as people did and beliefs in the supernatural power. The three important characteristic were first polytheistic (gods exits and compete with each other) second anthropomorphic (the gods looks as a human form and have their own personality.) and third pantheistic (everything was immersed with divinity).

5) How did Hammurabi justify this law code to the people he ruled?

Hammurabi didn’t justify this law because the Babylonians governed the entire valley from about 2000 to 1600 BCE, under Hammurabi the Babylonians reached their political and cultural ascendancy.

6) What does the code tell us about the place of slaves in Babylonian