Student Submitted: Miss Namfar, Preme

Subject: WORLD HISTORY I (HIS1001)

Instructor: Mrs. Laura Richards
Second Submission (REVISED)

Module 2:
21st Century Skills and Projects

Assessment 5: The Early Middle East (I)

PART 1: Hammurabi's Code Interpretation

Modern day law equivalent interpretations from 10 selected Ancient Hammurabi’s Code

(1) If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what
he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.
Interpretation:
Rewritten: Anyone who accused someone falsely and caused the person their reputation or
fear of life should get a defamation charged and give a written public apology or be
prosecuted via the legal proceedings due to the civil law.

(2) If any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and
also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.
Interpretation:
Rewritten: Anyone who steal or withhold the cultural property which hold as national
treasure should be prosecute and banned from the nation crime committed and serve jail
time via the legal proceedings due to the criminal law or constitution law if the property is
world heritage property under UNESCO protection.

(3) If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
Interpretation:
Rewritten: The people who commit a theft or heist should be arrested and sentence to jail as
a criminal via the legal proceedings due to the criminal law.

(4) If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house
which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
Interpretation:
Rewritten: When the contractor denied finishing the construction or improperly construct the
building (house) for the client – the client shall sue the contractor with “breach of contract”
and the contractor should pay for the client’s loss or time wasted.

(5A) If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.
(5B) If he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.
(5C) If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.
Interpretation:
Rewritten: If anyone try to hurt other with the intent to give that person serious harm should
be arrested and be prosecuted with the aggravated assault charge via state’s criminal law.
Written and Revised by Miss Namfar, Preme
Module 2 | Journey 5 Assessment for World History 1 (HIS1001) Grade 9
Instructor: Mrs. Laura Richards
(6) If a man take a wife, and she be seized by disease, if he then desire to take a second wife
he shall not put away his wife, who has been attacked by disease, but he shall keep her in
the house which he has built and support her so long as she lives.
Interpretation:
Rewritten: If one of the spouses decided to leave the seriously ill spouse and refused to take
care of the sick ex-spouse, once divorced they should be providing the money for all the
medication bills and care of the ex-spouse or get served with the abandonment charges.

(7) If during a quarrel one man strike another and wound him, then he shall swear, "I did
not injure him wittingly," and pay the physicians.
Interpretation:
Rewritten: In the quarrel between two or more parties and there was an injury occurred
unintentionally, the person responsible for the harm caused should be questioned by the
police to prove if they intentionally attack the person or not. When proven not guilty, the
person who hold the accountability of the harm occurred should help the victim with the
medical bills and pay fines for their injury.

(8) If any one "point the finger" (slander) at a sister of a god or the wife of any one, and can
not prove it, this man shall be taken before the judges and his brow shall be marked. (by
cutting the skin, or perhaps hair.)
Interpretation:
Rewritten: The charge of slander(defamation) will consider to be valid once it made known to
the public such as written on the internet, or publicly humiliate the subject and proven to be
untrue – the person who caused the public humiliation should be hold accountable and
made-known to the public of the falsely slandering with writing and published nationally and
probably need to settle some amount of money if that allegation cause the subject life-threat
or public humiliation. (If refused, the person who slandered should have a fair trial in civil
court with the jury.)

(9) If conspirators meet in the house of a tavern-keeper, and these conspirators are not
captured and delivered to the court, the tavern-keeper shall be put to death.
Interpretation:
Rewritten: Anyone who provide the location or supply knowingly to people who have planned
to harm the government or constitutional related terrorism should be prosecuted as the
terrorist and get their property forfeit.

(10) If a "sister of a god" open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be
burned to death.
Interpretation:
Rewritten: To own the alcoholic bar, sold, possessed, or consumed alcoholic beverage illegally
should be prosecuted and sentence to jail time or any other criminal sentences the judge sees
as appropriate due to the state’s criminal law.

Written and Revised by Miss Namfar, Preme

Module 2 | Journey 5 Assessment for World History 1 (HIS1001) Grade 9
Instructor: Mrs. Laura Richards
 Module 2:
21st Century Skills and Projects

Assessment 5: The Early Middle East (I)

PART 2: SHORT RESPONSES

1. How have the values and ways we deal with breaking the law in our society
changed since Hammurabi's code?

Rewritten: Hammurabi’s code originally created to unify the community or in the other word,
society, to create fear and prevent the people of degraded to savagery so the society could be
peaceful and free of danger. And the modern days law has been developed to suit the modern
society but with the broader range of felonies and punishment, sometimes it doesn’t create
enough fear and the crime still occurs. People in the modern society has the way to avoid to
be accountable for their crime with a good defense lawyer and sometimes the law
enforcement procedures cannot prove the criminal act of the person of interest or sometimes
the prime suspects without enough evidence.

2. Why do you think it's important to have codified laws in a society?

Rewritten: To keep the people under the same rules and not harming others the written laws
or “codified laws” play prominent part to keep the community in order and make people
follows the decency of the society common agreements in terms of ethics and moral. And
sometimes as the law is written, it is also prevent the people to be wrongfully prosecuted and
sometimes it made the guilty people got away with their wrong doing by bending the word on
the codified laws.

Written and Revised by Miss Namfar, Preme

Module 2 | Journey 5 Assessment for World History 1 (HIS1001) Grade 9
Instructor: Mrs. Laura Richards