what is the cause and effect of the code of Hammurabi?

Question

cause and effect relationships in the code of hammurabi?

Answer 1

Hammurabi's code basically dictated that if you do something wrong, the same would be done to you- eye for an eye kind of thing.

Answer 2

Poor man, no one has answered this question. You speak of cause and effect and no one addresses that.

Cause of the Code, the create a system of laws for a society to live under.

Effect of the code is that it provided a basis for future societies to create laws that they were to live under.

Insofar as we know, the Code is the oldest found system of laws. But that could change tomorrow when an archaeologist finds an older set.

Answer 3

The Code of Hammurabi is the first recorded law ever found. It is actually 282 laws which represent many of the laws that resemble the more primative laws of the middle east (e.g. eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth). Many involve the death penalty for what we consider minor offences.

Answer 4

First attempt of the state to legislate, enforce and standardize crime and punishment. Indication that societies had become large enough that disruptive activities within that society needed to be managed for the good of the society.
I forced individuals to be responsible for their behavior because they now had little control over the consequences.
It was a baby step that led to the well defined body of law we have today.