#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

4447.363 - 4470.66 Gregory Aldrete

So they're the transitional thing that lets human beings live together without just resorting to anarchy. And most of the early law codes are agricultural, like Hammurabi's code in Mesopotamia. Most of them are retaliatory, meaning eye for an eye type justice. So you do something to me, it gets done to you. But they're this necessary precondition for civilization, I would say.