On September 1, 1764 , Parliament passed the Currency Act , effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system. The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency.
The purpose was for Hammurabi (sometimes written "Hammurapi") to set down a reasonable and unchanging set of laws that addressed common problems in his kingdom. The code was especially important because, up until that time in history, there really were not any wide-spread laws that unified such a large group of people.
Before this, justice in many places would have been in the vigilante style, i.e. if someone in your small village steals your cow, it's most likely up to you and your family to go find it and then punish the perpetrator. The punishment for stealing might have been being lashed with a whip, for example, in one town and yet five miles away in another town the punishment was having a hand cut off. Under the code, everyone was eligible for the same punishments and fines no matter where they went. With one law from the king on down, there was less risk of being hanged or stoned for something relatively minor, or starting a never-ending feud between families over a disputed punishment
While there are a few possible answers to this question, an <em>ethnopsychologist </em>seems to be the likely answer.
Several different types of psychologists would be interested in interdisciplinary studies, especially when partnered with Archaeology. This subfield is called Cognitive Archaeology. However, Jeremy seems interested in particular in the way relationships between parents and children have changed over time. The specific subfield that studies how mental states are affected by culture is ethnopsychology.
Inflation is the situation in which the same amount of money is worth less- meaning that it will have less purchasing power (so one can buy less for 100 dollars now than 10 years ago) - the correct answer is "purchasing power". Lower purchasing power reduces the amount of goods that people can afford.
