Answer: B) Given harsher punishment than nobility
Explanation: The Hammurabi code officially classifies classes in society, as well as rights and obligations, penalties, and these laws applied to everyone. Given that classes were defined according to their position in society, i.e. wealth, social status, these penalties were not the same harshness for everyone.
Thus there were three classes, the nobility, then the class of free people, where the middle and lower classes of society belonged depending on their wealth, debts, etc., as well as slaves who were in the possession, most often, of the nobility. Given that slaves were someone's possessions, this meant that the punishments for them were harsher than for the nobility.
