Ancient Law Codes
Chicago style
You must write a paper about all three of these law codes, in which you subject the readings to
critical thought and analysis, including your conclusions from that analysis. You must compare,
contrast, and critically analyse each of the three readings. Your analysis should include the
following points:
a. What does each reading tell you about the culture, concerns and cultural beliefs of the
civilisation which created each law code?
b. Given that each civilisation existed hundreds years apart from each other,
what do similarities tell of cultural commonalities; what do differences tell of cultural
differences between the three civilisations?
C. Is there any evidence to suggest that each civilisation had similar beliefs of moral
behaviours?
d. What do the types of punishments given in each law code tell of how each civilisation viewed that status of humans and the value of human life?
e. Discuss the meaning of differences between economic and physical punishments.