The Great Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi was a set of laws that covered almost every part of life. They were carved into stone, and were made to control the government.


Hammurabi, the creator of the Code of Hammurabi, was an Amorite king before he took the throne of Babylon, Hammurabi was then able to unify the people of the Fertile Cresant under one government and create an empire. After taking the Babylonian throne Hammurabi made a code of law. The code was made around 1700B.C.

Hammurabi created the code in order to inform the people of how they were to live and keep the government from corruption with over three hundred paragraphs and two hundred and eighty two laws. The code covered almost every single part of life for the Babylonians with thirty six-hundred thousand lines of cuneiform, which was a way of writing.


The Code of Hammurabi was carved into a black diorite stone. The stone itself is seven feet high and there are forty-nine columns on the stone. The code was logically and carefully arranged and the sections' orders were organized by the subject. The code has five sections, a code of laws, a handbook of duties and what is allowed of husbands, wives and children, a set of regulations that established wages and prices, and a code of ethics for doctors, merchants, and officials. scource.


Hammurabi, the Amorite king, who became the king of Babylon before making his code of laws, which were carved into stone. There were two hundred eighty two laws that covered almost all of the everyday life for Hammurabi's people.