Question

What do codes 117, 138, & 141 suggest about the status of women in
Babylonian society?

Answer 1

Answer: According to the Code, Babylonian society was structured around If you couldn't pay your debt, the family would be sold to work in labor to make up for the money for 4 years. Woman were useless exept for making offspring and if they couldn't, she would be sold to slavery.

Explanation:WOMEN IN BABYLONIA UNDER THE HAMMURABI LAW CODE. If in life the father acknowledged sons by a slave or concubine, they were entitled to share equally in his estate. If he had not acknowledged them they had no right to inherit, but the slave or concubine and her children were freed on his death.

Answer 2

Women were seen or regarded as a part of men's properties which is comparable to slavery.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Code 117 talked about men their wives or children to repay the loan

2. Code 138 talks about how men may choose, at their own will, to divorce their wives who are yet to give birth to them.

3. Code 141 talks about how a man may chose to divorce her wife based on her wrongdoing, or retain such a wife, but turn her to slave whenever he marries another wife.

Hence, the Hammurabi's codes 117, 138, & 141 suggested about the status of women in Babylonian society that "Women were seen or regarded as a part of men's properties which is comparable to slavery."