AKKADIAN
The Code of Hammurabi was and important document written to remember all of the laws (or codes) that ruler Hammurabi came up with to keep a more kept together community. "If any man, without the knowledge of the owner of a garden, fell a tree in a garden, he shall pay half a mina in money" was was one of these famous codes. There were 282 of them. This tablet is a found piece of the code.
The Mesopotamian's need for some law and instruction caused their ruler to create laws to keep them together. His interest in keeping his community a whole drove him to do something for it.
We are connected to this ancient civilization and it's laws because we probably learned from them how to, one, write down our rules, and two, to make up laws in the first place. If we had no laws in America, there wold be terrible things going on, and no one would ever be captured for it.
