AP World History Practice Test Chapter 3

Questions refer to the passage below. 195. Anyone assaulting his father shall suffer the loss of his hands. 196. Anyone destroying the eye of another shall suffer the loss of an eye as punishment therefor. 197. If anyone fractures the bones of another, the guilty one, upon conviction, shall have his bones fractured in punishment therefor. 198. If anyone destroys the eye of a freedman or fractures the bones of a freedman, he, upon conviction thereof, is to pay 1 mina of silver. 199. If anyone destroys the eye or fractures the bones of anyone’s slave, he, upon conviction thereof, is to pay half of his value [to the owner of the slave]. 200. If anyone knocks out the teeth of one, his equal [in rank], his teeth are to be knocked out, upon conviction of the offence. 201. If he has knocked out the teeth of a freedman, he is to pay one-third of a mina of silver. 202. If anyone commits assault and battery upon the person of another one of higher rank than himself, he is publicly to receive 60 lashes with the oxhide [upon conviction of the offence].” Hammurabi’s Code, Babylonian legal code, 18th century B.C.E. The consequences imposed by Hammurabi’s Code most strongly illustrates which of the following about Babylonian society?