“Writing and Record Keeping in Mesopotamia” Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
Go beyond the discussion of Hammurabi’s Code on pages 41-43. Check out the ENTIRE Code found in Instructor Insights. Some of the approximately 300 laws have been lost to history but most of them have survived. Some of the laws seem strange and harsh to modern readers. Try to imagine WHY Hammurabi made these decisions the way he did almost 4000 years ago. What do you think his rationale was for some of these “strange and harsh” laws? Can we assume that Hammurabi would have sentenced the Boston Marathon bomber to death? Should we execute the terrorist found guilty of setting off the bomb at the Boston Marathon?
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