Monday, April 26, 2010

The power of Hammurabi


Hammurabi was the greatest ruler in Mesopotamia. Hammurabi had 282 hundred laws in Mesopotamia. Hammurabi will have consequences to the person that injured the other person body. Hammurabi will send the person in the court and he has to cut part of the body and that person has to pay a fine. Hammurabi has destroyed and conquered lots of city states and he became a new king or ruler. He was so powerful and had lots of chaos. Hammurabi won lots of battles in Mesopotamia. Hammurabi had changed Mesopotamia more different. They had levees that were use for the water to go other places. Hammurabi had lots of justice. Hammurabi was a ruler he conquered city states. He has changed. He had kidnapped a king of city states. He has won many battles. He had a nickname Kinpphine that’s why he has been the greatest ruler long time ago. And Hammurabi was not a fair ruler all the times because he would not give people another chance. He would command his slaves to do all his work.

Resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi
http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b1hammurabi.htm
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html