Hammurabie's Laws

A long time ago there was a ancient ruler Hammurabi who ruled over the city called Babylonia, he was the first king of the Babylonian empire. He is best know for his set of rulers called Hammurabis Code that he created and that ran his empire.In this set of codes there were around 280 rulers all written on a giant stone table. These rules can be fair but at the same time not because some of them depend on the social class you are in. These rules are partly fair because most of them follow the rule of  "an eye for an eye", for example if you were to kill someone by bad construction it is clearly stated:" A builder who sells a poorly constructed house that collapsed and kills it owner may be put to death. If the owner's so rather than the owner is killed in the collapse, the builder's son may be put to death." With this rule at first it dose sound fair but we have to take into consideration that if the building is make well but the harsh weather make's it collapse it not necessarily the builders fault. Although some rules are pretty fair like this one:"If, due to crop failure resulting from either a flood or drought, someone is unable to pay interest on the debt, he may be excused from interest payment that year." This rule to me seems pretty fair since you cant control natural disaster. Although some depend on being the right social class." If a person destroys a gentalman's eyes, his eye may be destroy in turn.If he breaks a gentalmens bone, the same bone in the body may be broken.If a person destroy a slaves eye, he has to pay the owner of the slave for damage." As i said before some rules are fair and some are not but one thing that i can conclude is that they were harsh.