What Ideology Was The Code Of Hammurabi Based On?
Hammurabi’s Code was actually based on an earlier set of laws called Ur-Nammu’s Code which were written by a king called Ur-Nammu. Both codes are based on the ideology of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”– basically that punishment should be equal to the crime. If you hit someone in the face and knocked his teeth out, you would have your teeth knocked out.
