The Code of Hammurabi and how people lived their lives according to it

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…slave. Unless you are born into a family of slaves: you were already a slave. 9 In general, the code portrays a stable and well-organized society in which law and order played a predominate role and in which even the lowliest individual was not without some legal protection. The code was effective and influenced the poeple of Mesopotamia "over time." Mesopotamians enjoyed life and repected the code of government, which made Mesopotamia society as a whloe.10