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Essay Instructions: Hammurabi's code reflected the Mesopotamian society of his time. Indicate the major features of his society as they are reflected in the code and the similarities and differences with other ancient law codes. What were the advantages of such codes?


Use World Civilazation by Philip Lee Ralph as a source plus 3 other sources of your choice. Essays should be interpetive and analytical, and should be grounded in solid factual support and argument.

Essay Instructions: the paper must cover a specific topic within the time frame of 4000 to 404 BC
how is the hammurabi code the same and different from united states laws?
do not use more than 2 internet sources and wikipedia is not an acceptable source
cite sources in the paper

Essay Instructions: Please do an Essay on the following and cite reference of the websites mentioned

One of earliest written accounts of law can be found in the Law Code of Hammurabi. Here is an excellent verbatim account of the law: http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM. I especially enjoy the prologue ? which of course was hammered into large stones (stele: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Code_of_Hammurabi_replica_stele_REM.JPG) which were then placed throughout Hammurabi's empire so all would know the laws of the land. Inscribed on each stele were two hundred and eighty two laws (that is a lot of chisel work)! These laws cover all aspects of the law: political, social, and economic.

Class, please pick one (or two, or three, or four...) laws from the stele that you found particularly interesting. What can this law (or laws) tell us specifically about Hammurabi's empire and about Mesopotamia, in general?

Essay Instructions: I need to write an 800+ word essay on political, social, and religious changes that have occured since before the 1500's to today. Specifically I must address 1) How the Code of Hammurabi has influenced us politically, 2) How the Aricultural Revolution has changed us socially, and 3) How Zoroastrianism has had an affect on religion.

He wants some basic info. on each area, but primarily wants to know chronologically changes that have occured and says to keep relating it back to us today. How has our world been influenced by each.