According to Hammurabi’s Code, we are able to see that even though women were viewed as private property of the male head of household, they were treated in some respects fairly. For example, code 134 states “If a man has been taken prisoner, and there is no food in his house, and his wife enters the house of another; than that woman bears no blame.” This tells us that the people of Babylon used common sense. Instead of making the wife starve, she was treated fairly and able t
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