Read the excerpt from hammurabi’s code. “if a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician [aristocrat], his eye shall be knocked out. . if he has knocked out the eye of a plebeian [commoner] . . he shall pay one mina of silver. if he has knocked out the eye of a patrician’s servant . . he shall pay half his value.” what does this quote illustrate about the nature of hammurabi’s code?

The most important legal code of the United States is the U. S. Constitution. One of the characteristics of this code is that its laws apply to all citizens equally, regardless of race, age, class, etc.

This passage shows that Hammurabi's Code did not operate based on the same principle. Babylonian laws were applied differently depending on the class and social status of the perpetrator and the victim.

first, the romans stayed isolated because they had to defend their own territories from neighboring cities that were harassing them, like the etruscans. second, once the romans managed to defeat their neighbors, and started to expand their territory, they started to build roads and bridges. finally, now that the romans have covered their territory with roads functioning as highways, they could mobilize their legions faster to assemble larger military units in a specific place

the secretary of state, appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the senate, is the president's chief foreign affairs adviser. the secretary carries out the president's foreign policies through the state department and the foreign service of the united states.