What were the good effects hammarabi had on Babylon

It was the Hammurabi Code that said that one who destroys the eyeof another should have his own eye put out as punishment and onewho murders should himself be put to death, thus giving rise to theexpression “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”. Althoughmarriages were arranged by the parents, there is no reason tosuppose that they did not involve considerable love, affection andmutual support. Some relationships were bound to fail, however, andthe code spelled out in considerable detail all of the options. Ifhe simply ran away and deserted her she was free to marry someoneelse; even if he returned later he could not reclaim her; nor couldshe opt to return to her first husband: the Code, not the woman,made the choice. A wife’s dowry was administered by her husband aspart of the family assets. He had no say, however, in its ultimatedisposal. If she died childless, her dowry reverted back to herfamily—her father, if he was alive, otherwise her brothers. Ifshe had sons, they would share it equally. A man divided his estateamong his sons after having provided a suitable dowry for eachdaughter and an appropriate bride price for each son. If he diedbefore arranging all of this his heirs were expected to do sobefore dividing the balance of the estate. If a man had children bytwo wives, all of his sons shared his estate equally; they got aportion of their birth mother’s dowry but nothing from theirstepmother. (166-167, 183-184) Likewise a woman who had children bytwo husbands divided her dowry equally among her sons by bothmarriages.