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Law and Justice
BY ERIC & LIVIAH
Who?
Mesopotamians
King Hammurabi
What?
 Laws organized to create order within society
King Hammurabi created over 282 different laws, which were “eye for an eye.”
Where?
Mesopotamia
When?
1792-1750 B.C (Hammurabi's ruling)
Why?
“To cause justice to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, that the strong may
not oppress the weak”
 To create order