The Code of Hammurabi 

All your channels are good Simon. Everything is fairly unbiased, the writing staff is amazing. Callum and danny, really all the staff.

@Steven Baal Sullae did it too. Too bad he fucked up big time.

Too funny - I love a Good-Bad Pun!

Why was the code developed???

@@asmahan4080 as a form of law. Long before Christianity and even Judaism there were other religions and cultures that were magnificent. Did you know Egypt was a thriving civilization when the in Europe you had cavemen and woolly mammoths. And before Egypt there was Babylon, the first major civilization. And in a civilization you need laws, thus Hammurabi created a code of laws. Well really the first civilization was Sumeria, but Sumeria became Assyria and eventually became Babylon. He was the first king to declare his code of laws, that we have a record of.

Hmmmm... I woule love to go to ASSyria 😉

@@darkashtar Egypt and Babylon seemed to arise almost at the same time and independently. Most archaeologists have given up trying to determine which invented writing first or any connection to the two.

I just started freshman year and I'm learning about River Valley Civilization in world history

We must find thy rouge who das left this terrible hanging tale!

Source?

@@manuelredgrave8348 "The Hammurabi code, dated 1780 B.C., dictated that the person with epilepsy could not marry, or testify in court, and the purchase contract of a slave was considered void if the slave suffered an epileptic seizure within the first three months of purchase." Source: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1528-1157.44.s.6.2.x

@Please Complete All Fields All that epilepsy is is when someone has at least 2 seizures without any provocation or other cause (so a seizure caused by a brain tumor or dehydration wouldn't count), and seizures are very noticeable. Epilepsy in general is one of the oldest known diseases, and all it was described as by these ancient peoples was basically "otherwise healthy person is having these strange episodes (aka seizures)". Most ancient civilizations thought the seizures were due to some sort of curse or blessing from the gods and not some abnormal event in the brain, and they all had their own name for epilepsy.

@Please Complete All Fields - they called it "the falling sickness". Julius Caesar had it, too.

You would too lel can you blame him

Syukran.

...that's a pretty shitty school

Maybe the mention of those laws could lead to some "unnecessary confusion" (history, law, religion etc.) with the current system in that region at the time? Just thinking loud...

In your neighboring country (iran) we pretty much learned about Babylon and other ancient civilization especially those in the Middle East in school, i remember there was a page about hammurabi code in history book

​@@grilledleeks6514not school here in iraq all schools study the same thing until high school And yes they didnt teach us much about our history even tho iraq have the longest history in the world

The Code of Ur-Nammu, was written between 2100-2050 BC, is the world’s earliest extant legal code. It was written centuries before the more famous Code of Hammurabi was penned by the Babylonian monarch Hammurabi (lived 1795-1750 BC), enacted as law between 1755-1750 BC. This is important as in 1763 BC, Hammurabi came to power and 8 years later, the business of adopting existing laws and rewriting to replace with his own legal reform, is where the Code of Hammurabi was made. This means, in contrast to what many scholars state about the reign of Hammurabi, being the most fair of rulers for his time, it was in fact only in the twilight of his reign, his Code of Hammurabi, replaced the lesser known, Code of Ur-Nammu. Even earlier law-codes exist, such as the Code of Urukagina.The prologue, typical in Mesopotamian law codes, invokes deities for Ur-Nammu's kingship, Nanna and Utu, which decrees "Equality in the land".

Alan McGowan the tongue from which the lie was said would be cut. Even in the south as of the late 1800’s it still happened if a slave was caught lying or speaking bad otherwise they would be killed but only as a last resort.

What else would they take? Answer - You don't want to know. Like: Don't. Look. DOWN!

Master has given us.... clothes.

There were no slaves in the USA in the late 1800s. At least not legally.

"The ears will be reattached so that then they may be cut off once more"

Basilick if we were only so lucky to be blessed by our lord and savior like that

HomoRabbi...

Normie

Janeen Phayne someone has a thing for normies out here lol

Same here.

The less frequently an employer files payroll, the cheaper it is. Some employers pay weekly, bi-weekly, or even monthly. It’s just a way to reduce work and expenses. If you want to get off of that system you can always start a business and start investing in yourself. Put yourself in power!

Omg you are so beautiful that you could get payed for every night you work..

Well, feel free to use this to learn a little more than you would.

He pronounced "Draco" two ways, so which is it?

He said 'steel' for stele.

Its bah reh-lee-eff.

Well the Brits pronounce alot thing differently....

I second that! As. Soon as I heard it I thought it'd be a great show.

High key normie !!

​@@Perririri I'm sure you're fun at parties.

Me too! You're the 3rd person who thought that! I feel less foolish with every comment. I read!

"Eye for Decapitation" sounds like the worst makeover show ever.

My thought exactly. Specifically because if they had not cought her doing it, while there being some circumstancial evidence (or he would have his brow cut).

Agree. They used to have ducking stools as punishment in pre-colonial times.

Yes lol

Ferengi

You damn ferengi

They are, but don't hold a charge very long or well because of how they're manufactured.

You're horrified? That was Hammurabi's idea. You won't kill anyone's daughter (or anyone, really), because, had you lived there, you'd be scared for her, wouldn't you? Ancient Near Easterners weren't stupid (their descendants are also not stupid either). They knew something like Draco's laws wouldn't work (nor would this three-strikes bollocks). That's because the punishment is directed against a person with nothing left to lose. Oh, you'll execute rapists? well, the rapist will now kill, because then the victim says nothing. But you know what does scare (most) people? Having their loved ones killed. People are funny that way: they often care more for their loved ones, than for themselves. What better way to stop a crime, than to hold a potential criminal's family hostage? To us today, this comes across as a brutal, and psychopathic way of approaching the subject (it's certainly the former. Not sure about the latter, though). But to people back then, living in the days before Judaism and its descendants, this sort of thing worked. And that was all that mattered. That it was brutal was irrelevent. I'm personally just glad we don't need this sort of brutality. Not even the Near East today does this.

He assumes the first five books of the bible were written after the Hebrew people went into Babylonian captivity.

In case you haven't noticed, we are now in the post-modern era where everybody is racist, genderfluid, crazy and about to be plunged into thick darkness. I'm grateful to God that I don't have any children to protect....

@ZZ UP Seriously? Do you think i could use the internet comfortably if i did not live in a society that experienced the Enlightenment and developed the concept of free speech to the point to invent sarcasm and then developed the technology to share Enlightenment and Sarcasm on the global scale? Yeah...i'm totally being sarcastic.

@@shockmonkeyradio7128 Sarcasm existed before the Enlightenment.

@@virding232 fair enough...

@Sarah Asaad true, but again, i only speak of what i know, and i haven't done research on hammurabi's code yet

What else are civil and military decorations for?

@BMore by this do you mean that the events it reports did not happen? On what basis do you make that judgement? I say they did because Jesus at least implied that they did and He said He was God, so would know, and was resurrected from the dead showing that He told the truth. We know this because a bunch of 1st century Jews, we have the written work of at least eight of them, changed everything they thought about the world and said that they did so because they saw, or had spent extensive amounts of time with those who saw, the resurrected Jesus.

@BMore there is just one problem with what you said, the New Testament documents were written by the 1st generation of Christians and although we know other texts were written in that period we have none of their content to judge the New Testament documents by. And even though some of the texts are anonomous, not all of them are. Paul, Peter and John, James and Jude specific give their names whereas Luke is clearly addressing someone he knows so there is no reason for him to give his name, and possibly another John states he was there but does not state his name.

@BMore with John I meant the epistles. You are right we don't have any texts for a few decades but this is ancient history, most of what we know about different people comes from sources written centuries later. Remember that Paul within the lifetimes of those who were there invited people who did not believe in the resurrection, the Greek way of thinking meant that resurrection was a silly idea, can go and speak to those who saw it. Yes the Gospel authors don't identify themselves, though I pointed out that Luke is writing to someone he knows so you wouldn't expect him to, but why does this matter? Anyway we might know a lot less without them but we would know about the resurrection. How do you date Acts and how do you date Luke's death? Who do you think wrote James? What disagreement is there between 1 Peter and Paul? How have you come to conclude that 2 Peter is fraudulent?

@BMore random Google searches on such subjects lead you to all sorts of nonsense, have you any hints of where to look? It is not that I over look what you have pointed out, it is that I disagree with your conclusions based on the evidence I know. Feel free to provide more evidence.

Normie

I thought the same thing lmao

A plebeian is a commoner, one level or so above servants, who are in turn one level above slaves, the lowest level. Plebeians generally either owned some land for farming or plied a trade. In ancient Rome, centuries after Hammurabi of course, plebeians gained political power in what would be the lower house of the legislature today. Slaves never had any political or social power at all since they were considered the property of other people, much like livestock. Servants usually performed slave tasks but chose that life, perhaps because of debts, which could have lasted a short time or for many years, not for a lifetime as in the case of slaves. The life of slaves and servants (serfs) did not change much throughout the ages. Farming chores, trash and waste collection, building, preparing meals, any physical labor the upper class would not deign to do, preferring entertainment instead.

I sure did lol