Chapter 2 Documents
The question I chose to answer was: What can you infer from the code about th kind of social problems that afflicted Mesopotamia?

Based on the code I am sure that there was a lot of homelessness or people having to look for housing with their friends or family. For  many people in failure to comply with the law, the party whom was affected must take their house upon not complying with the law. I can see some disparity here since people who may have known how to use the system might have had big plots of land. In many cases possession looks to have been something taken too seriously because of this basis. Merchant recipts must have been too strict, leaving someone to oversee a house must have been uncommon, and hiring mercenaries must have been a last resort.

Tied to this is the judicial system, which looks pretty harsh. There must have been a shortage of judges since if a judge made a mistake he was hurt economically, and could not keep practicing his job. I assume that a lot of judges ended their practice broke, since they had to pay 12 times of what they assigned to the party that was ordered to pay up. Not only economically was harm done, but also physically since the tooth for tooth method was born and/or first written for the first time in this society. Adding to all the harm, many crimes such as robbery were punishable by death, and others were harsh such as hopping on the river. The river sometimes meant death and this must have caused either really good behavior or a lot of deaths.

Marriage and woman treatment also looks complicated, since marriage rules tend to not have incline to any forgiveness, and at the same time can leave a lot of baggage.