These laws reflect a certain spirit of justice. For example, it stipulates that if someone slaps a superior person in the mouth, the judicial department can only give the criminal sixty lashes, but not according to the superior person's wishes, or

Punish according to the whim of the judicial branch.

From here it is not difficult to see that this has improved the rights of the lower class, that is, civilians and slaves. You know, in the past, the superior people could kill civilians and slaves at will as long as they had silver coins, but now it has developed to

, if a lower-class person hits a higher-class person, they can only be punished according to the rules in the code. This is undoubtedly a huge progress. Of course, this progress is based on the concept of equality for everyone.

Why is there such a strange rule? In fact, because of the long-term slavery society, too many slaves and civilians died, and civilian slaves generally did not have enough to eat, which led to too many problems within the empire, and another one was agricultural production.

It has been greatly reduced, because if too many civilian slaves die, no one will do anything, and this means that the people above will have no resources to enjoy.

And it is also clearly written in the code that whistle-blowing is not encouraged. Articles 1, 3, and 5 stipulate that if a free citizen accuses another free citizen of murder, but it is proved to be a false accusation, then the false accuser shall be sentenced to death. But this

This regulation is so scary that even if it is used in our modern times, it would make people feel horrified. We even believe that no one will file a complaint or call the police at will, because it is a death penalty!

However, because our ancestors had too many civilians and slaves who did not understand the law at this time, they did not receive any knowledge inheritance at all, which meant that they did not know the written language, so this rule was too inhumane for them, and there were also

Too many civilians and slaves made random complaints, and too many people were killed.

And because the judicial department sometimes has problems, Hammurabi revised this law. The modification is: If a judge has made a judgment on a false accusation, but later changes the judgment, he will be punished

He shall be fined twelve times the original litigation costs and shall be dismissed from his position as judge.

This later change was mainly due to someone bribing the judges. It is not difficult to see from this that the judges used to have great power in space and other aspects, but now Hammurabi uses the code to take back some of the original powers. Of course,

This is also a good thing for civilian slaves. If this kind of rules must be understood deeply, it will have a preliminary sense of fairness.

Then there are the less humane laws. This is mainly because Hammurabi wanted to consolidate the rule of slave owners. For example, there is a provision in the code that anyone who deserts military service will be put to death. Of course, this provision is actually in our current modern era.

The same is true in civilized societies. I personally feel that every country has such regulations on this matter.

Then let’s look at other provisions in the code. Anyone who destroys bridges and water conservancy will be severely punished or even executed. Anyone who helps slaves escape or hides slave escapees will be executed. If there are illegal people conspiring in a certain store, the owner does not tell them

If these people are caught, the shop owner will be executed.

Finally, let’s talk about some of the humane touches in Hammurabi’s Code: For example, if someone adopts a baby and raises him, the child’s biological parents cannot take him back. If a nobleman loses his wife because his wife cannot bear children,

If you want a divorce, you must first pay back all the price she paid when she got married, as well as all the dowry.

Seeing this, many people will ask, why is this matter of divorce due to infertility written in the sacred Code of Hammurabi? In fact, this is due to the factors of the times. We have all talked about it before, women

Bleeding occurs on those days of the month. Therefore, it is unlucky for women to bleed every month at this time. Therefore, very special methods are used to deal with it. As we have said before, there are very dirty animal skins.

There are very dirty fabrics, and they are all recycled. Of course, more women from poor families generally use dust, so in the process, it leads to infection of the lower body of women. Therefore, many adult women, this is

They have long since lost the ability to have children, but our ancestors cannot solve this problem at present. Unlike us in modern times, we have sterile packaged sanitary napkins, so it is not difficult to see from this that it is really difficult for our female ancestors, at least

Judging from the history of our human evolution, our female ancestors have been really miserable in the past hundreds of thousands of years. Well, I won’t talk about it anymore.

Then we continue to talk about the Code of Hammurabi. There are some provisions in the code that we also want to talk about, because I think this provision is more interesting and can also help all of us in China today, and even some of the migrant workers around the world.

Take a look at how our ancestors dealt with the matter of men in the family traveling away from home.

This rule is: If the husband travels far away and does not leave enough money to support the family, the wife can remarry.

Haha, look, the provisions of Hammurabi's Code regarding this kind of thing are a bit confusing to us modern people, right? But I personally feel that this seems reasonable and reasonable, but I can't find anything wrong with it anyway.

Next, let’s take a look. There are actually some provisions in the Code that seem ridiculous to us today. In fact, we have talked about some of them before, but let’s take a look:

If a mason builds a house for someone, and the house collapses and kills the son of the family, then the mason will have to sacrifice his own son to pay for his life. But I feel right? If this kind of regulation is used in today's scum projects, it will definitely have some consequences.

Wonderful effect!

But this is actually the rule we talked about before, and also, if a superior man kills the daughter of another superior man, he must also kill the daughter of this superior man.

There are also some regulations that are very interesting. How interesting are they? If we modern Chinese people use this regulation, I think all the common people in China will be happy. Why do I say this? Let’s do it

Take a look at this rule:

If the robber is not caught and the person who was robbed swears before the gods and tells his loss, the official in the area where the robbery occurred must repay the loss of the person who was robbed. If a person dies, the official in the area must also pay money.

One Myra is given to the relatives of the deceased.

How much is one Myra of silver? In fact, it is probably the price of one ingot of silver in China. This is definitely not a small amount. In the era of our ancestors, it was equivalent to a very large amount of wealth. Of course, this regulation also tells the time

Officials must catch the robbers. Failure to catch them is the official's problem. Anyway, this is what Hammurabi stipulated.

Well, we all know this about the "Code of Hammurabi", and this is the first relatively complete written code in our world, which also extensively adjusted all aspects of social life in the Babylonian Empire.

As a result, the Babylonian Empire became one of the most tightly governed countries in the Eastern slave countries of this era.

Then let's look at it. During the reign of Hammurabi, because of this set of codes, this led to more scientific and technological progress, and even great progress in medicine, and even more dramatic progress in the construction industry.

Why has such great progress occurred? In fact, this is because of the credit of the "Code of Hammurabi". This code was like a god in the era of our ancestors. Everyone devoutly believes in this code and strictly follows it.

All the rules in the code were followed for development, so the entire empire developed very smoothly. After a long time, the population finally exceeded one million. We can think about it, Hammurabi even called himself the king of the four directions of the universe.

Isn't this awesome? It's so awesome that even our modern people would be amazed by it.

Therefore, with the permission of these abundant conditions, the entire development process of human ancestors has progressed rapidly. First, let’s talk about medical progress. We have also talked about many medical advances before, but they were all in the name of gods.

While practicing medical skills, the current era is different. The concepts of medical skills and gods have begun to blur, and are almost separated from the concepts of gods.

However, the advancement of medical technology is not caused by people getting sick, because the cause of many viruses cannot be found at all. This is also the reason why the medical equipment and even conditions of our ancestors were limited. Therefore, the real cause of medical advancement is the factor of resurrection in the afterlife.

That is, the process of making mummies. Why should we understand it this way? Now let’s talk about the systematic analysis.

First, let’s take a look at what mummies are. From our modern point of view, mummies are almost completely synonymous with the culture of Egyptian ancestors. However, the behavior of our human ancestors making mummies is not only limited to the Egyptian generation, but also to our ancestors.

Mummies have actually been discovered in Xinjiang, China, and even in the Americas and other regions in modern times, but in general, Egyptian mummies are the earliest, have the highest technology, and are the most typical, so we mainly talk about the Egyptians.

mummy.

The Egyptians believed that after death, as long as the body could be preserved intact, they could gain eternal life. So they used salt water, medicine, ointment, linen and other items to smear the body for embalming treatment, and the level of mummification technology was

It is very superb, and it can preserve the body for thousands of years without any damage to the body, hair or skin. Even today, when we modern people dig up mummies, we can infer from the mummies the noble smile and majestic posture of the Pharaoh during his lifetime.

Egyptian mummies initially relied on natural factors. They buried their bodies in more than one meter of sand. As the tides of the river rose and fell, the sand would move and the bodies would gradually be exposed.

When roasted in hot sand that can scorch a flatbread, the corpse will soon absorb about 75% of its body weight. Naturally, it will be impossible to rot, leaving only a dry and shriveled corpse.
Chapter completed!