2 DISCUSSION FORUM 1. Please reply with an answer to the instructor’s initial 3

2 DISCUSSION FORUM
1. Please reply with an answer to the instructor’s initial 3 questions
Each initial response should consist of at least 2-3 paragraphs expressing your ideas in the 150-230 word range.
2. Then respond critically to 2 (two) other students’ postings
Each answer to a classmate’s post: at least 120 words.
Write in complete sentences which are correctly punctuated.
Please be courteous, respectful, and supportive of one another.
You don’t need to copy the question, only your response is required.
Please list the number of the question you are answering:
Question 1.
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Question 2.
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Question 3.
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Do NOT submit your post as an attachment.
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Please read your textbook and primary or secondary source documents in MODULES and discuss the following 3 questions:
Code of Hammurabi, king of Babylon, 1792 – 50 BCE (8) https://www.flickr.com/photos/43714545@N06/13936812875
1. What most surprised you, as a person who lives in the twenty-first century, about Hammurabi’s Code? Are there particular laws that stand out for you? Why?
What differences or similarities between Hammurabi’s Code and contemporary legal codes can you find? Please explain.
2. What aspects of the code appear just, unjust or unusual to you? (Focus on the following laws: 2, 3, 5, 22, 196, 197 ) Please explain.
3. In your opinion as a citizen of the United States, what rights did women enjoy that seem fair to you, and to what restrictions were they subject? (Focus on the following laws: 110, 128, 129, 130, 132, 136, 137, 142, 143, 145, 148) Please explain.