1. Hammurabi had to provide for the good order of society and the basic welfare of his subjects by creating the Code of Hammurabiand setting it in a stone pillar so the citizens could always refer back to the code and act for justice. 2. There is evidence of class distinctions in Babylon because in the codes of personal injury, it speaks of ranks of slave, peasant, superior status, and free men. 3. The status of women in this society were underneath men; however, they had some place in society. They had many laws for them, such as divorce, abortion, slavery, and death. 4. Children's status depending on the status of the family, yet children also had laws. They had protection of debt slavery, children of a married woman, disowning, and abortion. 5. The collection of
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