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Code of Hammurabi
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This is the top of the stele. The rest is chiseled with old school rules from Babylon. Earliest we can find establishing things like liability and fair wages. Also had some dick moves; example, the severity of your punishment is less if you're a free man vs a slave. I wonder which of the two women counted as. 

Code of Hammurabi
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  • Date Taken: May 27 2012 @ 5:00 PM
  • Posted: 5/31/2012 3:39 PM
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