Do you think that hammurabi's laws were cruel? if you do, state why and how you think that the laws are cruel. have up to 2 sentences because i'm working on a presentation which is due for my 4th period social science class.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

"the attempts of the proletariat to rise above this abasement"