Compare and discuss how gendered norms are constructed in the Hammurabi's code on domestic life with how they are constructed in Ben Zhao's instruction manual for women. Mesopotamia means the Land between the Rivers, which are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. After the collapsing of Sargon's empire, a conqueror named Babylionian Hammurabi, who reigned from 1792 BC to 1750 BC. He then improved on Sargon's administrative techniques by relying on centralized bureaucratic rule and regular taxation rather than on suppression and plunder. He developed a series of codes called Hammurabi's codes. The gendered norms were discussed clearly in the Hammurabi's codes that women were respected for who they were and did not have to fight to gain the rights they had. Hammurabi's Code contained laws, which respected the rights of women. The society during Babylonian was developed base these series of codes. Many of the codes within Hammurabi's Code favor the men of the society, though many of them spell out certain rights for the lives of the women. .
One of the sources of tension was primogeniture, which coexisted with another form of inheritance based on equal division. For example, the father usually was in control of family resources, and his sons could only establish independent households after his death. "If a man's wife, who lives in his house, wishes to leave it, plunges into debt, tries to ruin er house, neglects her husband, and is judicially convicted; if her husband offer her release, she may go her way, and he givers her nothing as a gift of release. If her husband does not wish to release her, and if he take another wife, she shall remain as servant in her husband's house." That proved the power of the man in the family. Under the influence of Confucian during Han dynasty, the foremost female Confucian was Ban Zhao. She was born in a well-known noble family. She also composed and wrote many works about the lives of women.
