The Hammurabi’s Code was a set of laws for people in ancient Mesopotamia. The significance of these laws were to keep order in the civilization, because you need laws in order to be an organized civilization. They had rules based on different matters, and the punishments we’re really harsh. This is related to some of the laws today and in other civilizations of the past. Some of the laws carry on and the way they had their rules set inspired other civilizations to do the same.