if anyone steals an animal from a leader in the court, the thief shall pay back thirty times the animal’s value. if it belongs t
o a free man of the king, the thief will repay ten times the value. if the thief cannot pay, he shall be put to death. if a man puts out the eye of a free man, he shall pay back in gold. if he puts out the eye of a slave, he shall pay one half the value. if a man strikes a man of higher rank, he shall receive sixty lashes with a whip in public. ––from the code of hammurabi, mesopotamian laws, ca. 1800 b.c.e. a. identify and explain one similarity between a concept found in these mesopotamian laws and those from another civilization discussed in this chapter. b. identify and explain another similarity between a concept found in these mesopotamian laws and those from another civilization discussed in this chapter. c. identify and explain one difference between a concept in these mesopotamian laws and another civilization discussed in this chapter.
Although you did not specify the civilizations you should compare Hammurabi's code with, here I leave relevant points about the code that may help you:
Hammurabi's code is a collection of laws carved in a stone pillar during the Babylonian emperor Hammurabi's realm. After conquering the land within the Mesopotamian valley, he needed to unify the territory of his empire under the same laws. It is the first written code of laws.
As laws were written, judges could not change them at the moment. This was a guarantee of justice for citizens. Other civilizations like the Romans and Hebrews also had written codes of laws.
The code includes mainly a list of crimes and punishments established for them. The punishments defer according to the social rank of the victim and the criminal.
Punishments could be payments in species or metals, but also corporal, following the "eye for an eye" criteria of justice, or Tallion's law. This concept of justice can also be found in old Hebrew tradition, and in the Quran.
You can learn more about Hammurabi's code in the link below:
