How did Egyptian laws and moral codes develop differently than those of Mesopotamia?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Egyptian laws and moral code
1. remained in the mouth of the divine pharaoh
2. need to put it in writing was never strong
3. religion defined a moral code that the state could not easily modify or subvert
4. power of the moral code in the afterlife
a. evidence in uncovered tombs shows a shift from the belief that next world would reproduce the inequalities and lifestyles of this one to the belief that the next world existed to correct the imbalances of the one we know
B. Mesopotamia law and moral code
1. since kings were not gods they developed some of the earliest law codes
2. evidence exists of their writing
a. codes of Ur from the third millennium b.c.e. are lists of fines
b. code of King Lipit-Ishtar of Sumer and Akkad, around 2000 b.c.e., is clearly an attempt to regulate the entire society
c. Hammurabi's codes survived engraved in stone and shows the king receiving the text from the hands of a god
3. means to perpetuate royal commands
4. obedience was severely enforced
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