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  • Essay / History: Code of Hammurabi - 1299

    History is the past, which generally cannot be proven scientifically. The real one; The goal of History is to rediscover the past. A memorable shift occurs when the past is rediscovered based on our predisposition, that is, the way we see it. Indeed, some curiosities and works of expository expression that we have left over from earlier human progress could be deciphered in several distinct ways, or misjudged to some extent or entirely. Normally, understanding, even error, is influenced by the idea of ​​ethnocentrism, where various neighborhoods have recently established a basis of certain norms dependent on the acceptance of their social conventions, qualities and morals, administrative and particular on the basis of which they judge other external groups. When recognizing different social orders, it is generally difficult to see "another planet" without any eyewitness bias. Each planet, ours and theirs, can invoke its substances which are roughly similar starting with one period then the next or starting with one society then the next. One of the obvious misinterpretations, discussed in this article, occurred when recognizing a recorded document composed by the ruler of Mesopotamia. Our course book, Arts and Culture, (p 98) presents the Code of Hammurabi as a “Code of Law” of King Hammurabi. It was therefore something very different from a code of laws existing in our legal and authoritarian structure of government and social order. The Code of Hammurabi - "A code of law" or a set of royal choices??? As composed in Mesopotamia: The Mighty Kings, (p26), the code includes 282 laws which are extended at the beginning and end by a preface and a conclusion. The “Code” touches virtually every aspect of daily life in Babylonia. As the preface is in the middle of the article......, (a pleasant indication of ethnocentrism), as happened with the American translation of the Code of Hammurabi.BIBLIOGRAPHY MAINLY SOURCES:1. The human register, sources of world history. Third edition. Volume I. By Andrea/Over field. Copyright 1998 by Houghton Miffin Company.2. Mesopotamia: the powerful kings. Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia.1997.SECONDARY SOURCES:1. Arts and culture, an introduction to the humanities. Volume I. By Janetta Rebold Benton and Robert DiYanni. Prentice Hall, Inc. 1998.2. Mesopotamia University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London. By Jean Bottero, 1987.3. United States History and Government. N&N Publishing Company, Inc. By Paul Stitch, Susan F. Pingel and John Farrel. 1996.4. Webster's Complete Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language. Published by: Gramery Books, New York/Avenel, New Jersey. 1989.