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Isaiah Garced Journals Chapters 1 & 2 Though occasionally less harsh than earlier law codes, which date

as far back as around 2100 B.C., Hammurabis Code was by no means lenient. (15) Punishments were class-based: Crimes against a free person, for example, received harsher treatment than crimes against a slave or a semi-free person. Why were laws so much harsher on a free individual than on a slave?

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