Answer: In the state of Hammurabi people were not treated in the same way, t<u>hey were treated depending on the social category to which they belonged</u>.
Explanation:
Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon and under his rule the state was governed by a set of civil and criminal laws and regulations known as Code of Hammurabi . This code was written in 1750 B. C. and its laws are numbered from 1 to 282.
One of the important aspects of this code is the establishment of the hierarchy of society in three groups:
1) Free men or <em>awilum</em>.
2) The <em>muškenum</em>, who are speculated could be servants or subordinates, or an intermediate category of "semi-free" men.
3) Slaves or <em>wardum.</em>
The second important aspect of this set of laws is based on the application of the <u>Law of the Talion</u> (also known as <em>Eye for an eye</em>): the rule imposed a punishment that was identified with the crime committed, obtaining reciprocity.
However, <u>this reciprocity only applied between individuals of the same category</u>, therefore in the state of King Hammurabi not all people were treated in the same way. As an example, some paraphrased extracts of the code are shown below:
-The doctors' fees vary depending on <u>whether a free man or a slave was healed.</u>
-If a free man emptied the eye of a son of another free man, his eye would be emptied in return and in case the aggressor was of a category superior to that of the victim, Law of Talion is not applied but is condemned to a pecuniary punishment. And if the eye of a slave of a free man was emptied, the agressor would pay half his price (the price of the slave).
In conclusion,<u> in the state of Hammurabi people were not treated in the same way, they were treated depending on the social category to which they belonged.</u>
