What is the significance of the code of hammurabi

The Hammurabi Code was a set of laws to organize and control society, created in Mesopotamia, towards the 18th century BC. C. The creator was King Hammurabi, responsible for founding the first Babylonian empire.

Hammurabi receives from Shamash, God of the sun and justice, the laws of fairness and justice, arranged in 46 columns of 3,600 lines. In it the laws of his time, of a kingdom of unified cities, a grouping of casuistic, civil, criminal and administrative provisions are codified.

uncle sam would be tossing and turning in his grave : *)

barrio is a spanish word meaning neighborhood. in spain, several latin american countries and the philippines, the term is also used officially to denote a division of a municipality while a ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. the term may have originally been used in venice to describe the part of the city to which jews were restricted and segregated.