Hummurabis code
History is the past, which for the most part can not be scientificately proven. The real; goal of History is to rediscover past. A dramatic error happens when past is rediscovered from our own bias that is from the way we see it. Even certain artifacts and works pf literature that we have left from earlier civilizations can be interpreted in several different ways, or misinterpreted to a certain extend or entirely.Usually interpretation or even misinterpretation is affected bu the concept of ethnocentrism, where different communities have an already set up establishment of certain norms based on their own believes, traditions, social, legislative, and personal values and ethics from which they judge other foreign communities. When considering other societies, it is usually a difficult task to view "other world" without any observer prejudices. Each world, our and their can evoke its own realities that are more or less comparable from one period to another, or from one culture to another.One of the obvious misinterpretations, discussed in this paper, took place considering historical document written by king of Mesopotamia. Our textbook, Arts and Culture,(p 98) presents Hammurabi's Code as a "Law Code" of king Hamm
Published by: Gramery Books, New York/ Avenel, New Jersey. The ordering principle of "chapters" in Hammurabi's " Code" can also be understood, once looking at it from Mesopotamian bias. Thus from a point of view of an ordinary contemporary American,theHammurabi's Code is an ancient set of detailed legal codes of Mesopotamia. This is because latter begins with physicians. The "Code" of Hammurabi is a self-glorification of the king. Copyright 1998 by Houghton Miffin Company. United States History and Government. The Human Record, Sources of Global History. The "Code" touches almost every aspect of everyday life in Babylonya.
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