Identifier: storyofancientna00west (find matches)
Title: The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Westermann, William Linn, 1873-1954
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York : London : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ties of a ruler. He expresses the hopethat his people will say of him: Hammurabi indeed is u ruler who is like a real father to hispeople. He has established prosperity for the people for alltime, and given a pure government to the Land. 40. Code of Hammurabi. The law code of Hammurabicontains about 280 differentsections, dealing with .-illmanner of questions whichmight come up in i he adminis-tration of justice in his land.Though many of these seemstrange from I he standpointof our modern law, theynevertheless show that ideasof justice were, even at 1 hatearly day, clearly defined and expressed. The following law fixes i hepunishment for bribery: If a man bear wi1 Qesa in aca e, for grain or money, he. hall himself bear I he penalty imposed in thai case. Froma tone lab found neai The reward for the return of a fugitive slave was fixed:If ;i man seize ;i male or female lave, a fugitive, in he field, and hrin^ that slave back to his owner, the owner shall pay him two shekels of silver.
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IIammikaisj lO.fl.lVI . HI I.■■.:. . nOM I II I .Ml, 30 CIVILIZATION OF EGYPT AND WESTERN ASIA Breaking into the mud-brick houses is punished withdeath: (f a man make a breach in :i house, they shall put him todeath in front of that breach, and they shall thrust himi herein. The old Semitic law of an eye for an eye and a tooth fora tooth/ appears here long before In* same idea was ex-pressed by the Hebrews in their Mosaic Law: (f a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. (f one break a mans bone, they shall break his honeIf a man knock out a tooth of a man of his own rank, they shallknock out his tooth. 41. System of Farming.—Most of the land of Babylonwas owned by the kings or rich nobles, or belonged to thetomples of the gods and their priests. It was let out insmall tracts to tenants, who paid one-half or a third of theproduce as rent. On such terms the peasants could nothave made more than a bare living. Although slaves were used in tilling the soil,

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