Question

Which principle of Babylonian society does this excerpt from the Code of Hammurabi illustrate?Fines were preferable to corporal punishment.Fines were preferable to corporal punishment.All men are equal under the law.All men are equal under the law.Divisions existed between social classes.Divisions existed between social classes.Violence was always punished with violence

Answer 1

Violence was always punished with violence

Step-by-step explanation:

One law said, “If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.” Later historians summarized Hammurabi's Code with the phrase, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

This means that whoever commits an injury should be punished in the same manner as that injury.

blood repays blood in ham's code