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Hammurabi group activity (March 2, 2023), PPT - Coggle Diagram

- - - - become a servant for the people he owes
      - or reduced pay
- - - - poor
        
        more severe punishment
        
        is a poor person committed a crime against someone of higher class, they had a more severe punishment
      - rich
        
        less severe
        
        if a rich person committed a crim against someone of lower class, they had a less severe punishment than vice versa
      - also depended on gender
        
        man: less severe
        
        for example, paying a fine
        
        woman: more severe
        
        death
    - - "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"
    - - failure to do so, they had to pay from their own pockets (replace property and damages)
      - the issue with this is that the governers and city officials can "catch" the wrong people (to avoid punishment)
    - - if the building collapses and kills a family member, a famiy member of the builder would be killed
    - - parents arrange the marriages (and there's a forman contract)
        
        contract includes: bridal payments (by the husband) and dowry paid by the wife's father
    - - barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen
        
        woman is said to be the "property of man"
        
        very little legal rights
        
        some business rights, but not many
        
        when husband dies, his property goes to the wife, and she can distribute to children and inheritance
        
        husband had more power over divorce
        
        woman was expected to fulfill household duties and in the bed, or else the husband would keep the dowry
        
        however, if the woman could prove she did nothing wrong, she could keep the dowry
    - - incest was strictly forbidden
      - men were allowed to have casual affairs; women were not
        
        women would be killed
    - - if a child hit his father, his hand would be cut off
        
        father was allowed to hit son
        
        parents had total control over their children and expected obedience
        
        could not disinherit children - unless with reason and brought to the court
        
        if a parent lets go of their child, then other people have a right to raise them