Benjamin Melendez

History

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200. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.

201. If he knock out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a gold mina.

202. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.

203. If a free-born man strike the body of another free-born man or equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina.

204. If a freed man strike the body of another freed man, he shall pay ten shekels in money.

205. If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.

- taken from The Code of Hammurabi

Using this excerpt from The Code of Hammurabi, what be the punishment for a slave who slapped his master?

A) The master would sell the slave.

B) The slave would pay ten shekels.

C) The master would slap the slave.

D) The slave's ear would be cut off.